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$50,000 Winning Powerball Lottery Ticket Sold In Westport

A local resident is also the lucky winner, according to the Connecticut Lottery.

WESTPORT, CT — An unnamed Westport resident is $50,000 richer this week after claiming a winning Powerball lottery ticket purchased locally, the Connecticut Lottery announced.

The person claimed the ticket on Thursday, which they bought at the Westport Amoco gas station on the Post Road East.

The Connecticut Lottery no longer publishes winners’ names without their written consent, in accordance with Sec. 3(d) of Public Act 25-112, according to officials.

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Powerball costs $2 per play, and to win $50,000 someone has to match four out of five numbers plus the Powerball. The odds of such a win are 1 in 913,130.

Overall odds of winning the jackpot, matching all five numbers and the Powerball, are 1 in 1 in 292,201,338.

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