Virginia player wins $1 million Powerball prize, 6 others win over $100,000
WASHINGTON - Virginia players won big in Monday’s Powerball drawing, including one $1 million winning ticket purchased in Falls Church.
As the jackpot keeps growing, Virginia Powerball players just keep on winning. Virginia players had a total of 104,183 winning tickets in the Monday, October 9, drawing, including one ticket that won $1 million, two tickets that each won $150,000 and four tickets that each won $50,000.
There has not been a ticket drawn that matched all six numbers, as a result the jackpot for Wednesday, October 11, has grown to an estimated $1.725 billion.
Featured
No billion-dollar Powerball winner in Virginia, but 3 tickets won a nice chunk of change!
Check your tickets! No players matched all six numbers in Wednesday night's Powerball drawing, but Virginia Lottery officials say three tickets hit for quite a bit of money!
The ticket that won $1 million was bought at:
• Lee’s Sandwiches, 3037 Annandale Road, Falls Church
The two $150,000 winning tickets were bought at:
• Food Lion, 13530 Genito Road, Midlothian
• Online, using the Virginia Lottery app, by a player in Chesapeake
The four $50,000 winning tickets were bought at:
• 7-Eleven, 4086 Majestic Lane, Fairfax
• 7-Eleven, 18750 Fuller Heights Road, Triangle
• 7-Eleven, 1108 Volvo Parkway, Chesapeake
• Online, using the Virginia Lottery app, by a player in Richmond
All Virginia Lottery profits, including those from the sale of Powerball tickets go to K-12 education in Virginia. In Fiscal Year 2023, the Lottery raised more than $867 million for K-12 education, making up approximately 10 percent of Virginia’s total K-12 school budget.
Powerball drawings are held at 10:59 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays. Prizes range from $4 up to the jackpot. The odds of matching all six numbers to win the jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338. The odds of winning any Powerball prize are 1 in 25. You must be at least 18 years old to play Virginia Lottery games.
The Virginia Lottery News contributed to this story.
Featured
'Real possibility' US could be drawn into Israel-Hamas war, says analyst
Could the war in Israel draw the United States into a much bigger "world war"? It’s a question on a lot of people’s minds following an unprecedented attack on Israel by the Islamist militant group Hamas that killed hundreds and injured thousands more.