One winning ticket was sold in California for Monday night’s estimated $44 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said.
The winning numbers drawn on Monday, August 19 were: 1, 2, 15, 23 and 28, and red Powerball 10. The Power Play multiplier was 2X.
One ticket matched all five white balls to win the $1 million prize.
There were also Seven tickets nationwide that won $50,000 prizes and another 7 tickets won a $100,000 prize.
The total prize money of the smaller awards amounts to over $2.88 million.
These are the prize payouts for all states that play Powerball combined, along with the prize values for each prize tier, with and without the “Power Play” on Mon, Aug 19, 2024:
| Match | Winners | Prize | PowerPlay Winners | PowerPlay Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O O O O O | O | 1 | 44,000,000 USD | X | X |
| O O O O O | 1 | 1,000,000 USD | 0 | 2,000,000 USD |
| O O O O | O | 7 | 50,000 USD | 7 | 100,000 USD |
| O O O O | 248 | 100 USD | 100 | 200 USD |
| O O O | O | 547 | 100 USD | 201 | 200 USD |
| O O O | 12,495 | 7 USD | 5,067 | 14 USD |
| O O | O | 8,974 | 7 USD | 3,735 | 14 USD |
| O | O | 58,067 | 4 USD | 23,051 | 8 USD |
| | O | 125,158 | 4 USD | 49,587 | 8 USD |
The lucky ticket holder will have the choice between an annuitized prize of $44 million or a lump sum payment of $21.7 million. Both prize options are before taxes. If the winner selects the annuity option, they will receive one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5% each year.
Ticket sales and payouts had risen steadily as weeks came and went without a jackpot winner since Aug. 12, 2024, when the amount was reset at $20 million.
Powerball is played in 44 states, Washington D.C, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The odds of a ticket hitting the jackpot are 292,201,338 to 1. Players have roughly a 1 in 11,688,053 chance to win at least $1 million.
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Since we just had a winning ticket hit the jackpot, the top prize now returns to its starting point of $20 million for the next Powerball drawing on Wednesday, August 21, 2024 at 10:59 p.m. That prize carries a cash option worth $9.9 million.
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