Pennsylvania Lottery News

It may not have been the $590.5-million jackpot, but there was at least one big winning ticket sold locally for Saturday night's Powerball drawing.

The largest Pennsylvania Lottery prize awarded to a single winning ticket was the and select five white balls from the first set of 59 numbers plus a single red ball, the Powerball, from a second set of 35 numbers.

Before the Powerball jackpot rolled to $475 million for the May 18 drawing, one Powerball ticket worth $2 million from the May 15 drawing was sold at Sheetz, 117 S. Michael St., Saint Marys, Elk County.

Tack another $10 million onto the Powerball jackpot, thanks to player excitement: the jackpot has been boosted to a $360 million annuity value, or a $229.2 million cash prize, for the Wednesday, May 15, drawing, according to the PA Lottery.

Tack another $10 million onto the PowerballA jackpot, thanks to player excitement: the jackpot has been boosted to a $360 million annuity value, or a $229.2 million cash prize, for the Wednesday, May 15, drawing.

Match 6 winners have one year from the drawing date to claim prizes. The Lottery encourages the holder of the winning ticket to sign the back of the ticket, call the Lottery at 717-702-8146 and file a claim at Lottery headquarters in each.

The jackpots in the Powerball and Mega Millions lottery games have grown to a combined total of $520 million, and a ticket sold in Chambersburg already has a share of the prize.

Pennsylvania Lottery Powerball winners have one year from the drawing date to claim prizes.

Will anyone win the $222 million Powerball jackpot? It's anyone's guess, but matching all six Powerball winning numbers results in an enormous fortune for the May 8, 2013 lottery winner, says California lottery officials .

Each winning ticket correctly matched all five white balls, 01-06-13-20-51, but not the yellow Mega Ball 31, to win individual prizes of Lottery officials cannot confirm the identity of either winner until each prize is claimed and each ticket is validated.

Throughout its more than 40 years in existence, the Pennsylvania Lottery has funded approximately 75 percent of the state's Department of Aging budget through programs that offer low-cost prescription drugs, free and reduced-fare transit, property tax and rent rebates, long-term living services and senior centers.

Large jackpots for the PowerballA and Mega MillionsA multi-state games are generating excitement for Pennsylvania Lottery players this week.

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The Lottery encourages each holder of a winning ticket to sign the back of the ticket, call the Lottery at 717-702-8146 and file a claim at any of Lottery's seven area offices or at Lottery headquarters in and select five numbers from 1 to 30.

The ticket correctly matched all five white balls, 21-30-34-39-49, but not the yellow Mega Ball 43, to win a prize of Lottery officials cannot confirm the identity of the winner until the prize is claimed and the ticket is validated.

Three tickets matched the winning Cash 5 numbers drawn, 05-11-16-31-38. Each jackpot-winning ticket is worth bonus for selling the jackpot-winning tickets, which were among more than 124,700 prize-winning Cash 5 tickets sold statewide for the Monday night drawing.