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Westchester, Orange Lottery Players Won in Saturday's Powerball Drawing
Lottery officials announced two tickets worth $50,000 each were bought in Thornwood and Florida.
Lottery players in Westchester and Orange counties won $100,000 on Saturday’s record-breaking Powerball with two winning tickets sold for $50,000 each, NY Lottery officials have announced.
The Westchester County ticket sold at Rosehill Card & Video Ltd. at 618 Columbus Avenue in Thornwood. The Orange County ticket sold at the Quick Chek at 172 North Main Street in Florida.
Three $1 million winning Powerball tickets were sold in New York for the Saturday drawing. Lottery officials announced them Sunday.
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“While no one hit the jackpot prize, dozens of New Yorkers are vastly richer thanks to Powerball,” said Gardner Gurney, Director of the Division of the Lottery. “New Yorkers are cashing-in big time on history.”
The Lottery encourages everyone who buys a New York Lottery draw game ticket to check their tickets again, as they could be holding a winner. Tickets expire one year after the game’s drawing.
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The winners may claim the tickets at Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway at 810 Yonkers Avenue in Yonkers, NY 10704 or at any of the Lottery’s Customer Service Centers statewide, including the Lottery’s Fishkill office at 18 Westage Business Center, Hudson Valley Towne Center, Suite 6, Fishkill, NY 12524. To learn more about how to redeem a prize, click here.
This history-making Powerball jackpot has skyrocketed sales statewide to $155.8 million for drawings leading up to and including Saturday’s record jackpot drawing. Since this Powerball jackpot began on November 7, New Yorkers buying Powerball tickets have contributed more than $54.5 million in aid to education.
The next drawing is Wednesday with the jackpot now set at $1.4 billion. It is the biggest Powerball jackpot ever, largest jackpot prize of any lottery game in U.S. history, and the biggest lottery prize ever offered in the world that can be won with a single ticket.
If no one matches all five numbers plus the Powerball for Wednesday’s drawing, the jackpot will continue to grow. Tickets cost $2 per game and can be purchased until 10:00 p.m. EST.
Powerball is played in 44 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Prior to this jackpot, the largestPowerball jackpot was $590.5 million won in Florida in May 2013.
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