Check your Powerball tickets, Illinois: You may not have won the $1.87 billion jackpot in Wednesday’s Christmas Eve drawing, but three lucky tickets sold somewhere in the state won $50,000 each, and nearly 400 tickets won cash prizes of $100.
It wasn’t immediately clear where in Illinois the tickets were sold, and lottery officials did not immediately return NBC Chicago’s request for comment. The winning numbers in Wednesday’s drawing were 4,25,31,52, 59, and a Powerball number of 19.
The $50,000 wins in Illinois come after a single ticket sold at a gas station Cabot, Arkansas, a town about 26 miles northeast of Little Rock, won the full Christmas Eve Powerball jackpot. Lottery officials said they won’t know who won that ticket until at least Monday because winners must contact a claims center, which is closed for the holidays until then.
According to the Illinois Lottery, more than 395 Illinois Powerball tickets from Wednesday’s drawing matched either four or five numbers to score $100 each. In Indiana and Michigan, there were two tickets sold worth $1 million, the Powerball website showed, with other million-dollar tickets sold in California, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
A full list of Powerball results for Illinois can be found here.
“U.S. lotteries are reminding players to check their tickets carefully, as many tickets won cash prizes in [Wednesday’s] drawing,” a release from Powerball officials said.
The smaller cash prizes follow a $1 million Powerball ticket sold at a Mobile gas station in suburban Deerfield as part of Monday’s drawing. No one hit that jackpot in that one, causing the grand prize for the Christmas Eve drawing to swell.
Powerball’s odds of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to generate big jackpots, with prizes growing as they roll over when no one wins. Lottery officials note that the odds are far better for the game’s many smaller prizes.
Tickets cost $2, and the game is offered in 45 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The next Powerball drawing, with a jackpot of $20 million, takes place at 9:59 p.m CT Saturday.
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