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Lucky for the Lottery -- A Fourth $1Million Ticket Is Sold in Stamford
Dig out that Powerball ticket, perhaps you've won.
What’s in your wallet Stamford? Perhaps a winning $1 million Powerball ticket.
The odds of winning a prize are the same anywhere CT Lottery is played in the state, the city of Stamford apparently has the edge for being lucky when it comes to buying a $1 million Powerball ticket.
And one Stamford variety store has sold two lottery tickets worth $1 million, including a Powerball ticket, according Connecticut Lottery.
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The winning Powerball numbers on Jan. 21 were 11 - 12 - 15 - 28 - 57, the Powerball number was 23. In total, 11,558 winning Powerball tickets were sold in Connecticut for that date — including a $1,000,000 prize winning “Quick Pick” ticket sold at China Pavilion Variety on West Broad Street.
“Out of the thirty Powerball ‘Match 5’ prize winning tickets sold in Connecticut since the new game began in January 2012, Stamford retailers have sold four of them,” Diane Patterson, CT Lottery Vice President of Sales and Marketing, said in a statement. “Not to mention the year before when Shippan Point Getty of Stamford sold a $254.2 million Powerball jackpot ticket — that’s a record that still stands today as the largest jackpot prize ever won in the state.”
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“This is very exciting news,” China Pavilion’s manager Jessie Zhang said in a statement. “We sold a $1,000,000 winning ticket before, but that was a scratch ticket. Two $1,000,000 prizes sold at one location … that’s real lucky!”
For selling the Jan. 21 $1 million winning ticket, China Pavilion Variety will receive a $2,500 check from the CT Lottery just like the three other Stamford retailers when they sold Powerball Match 5 winning tickets: Track News & Variety, Glenbrook General Store, and Shippan Candies.
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