$500K Powerball Ticket Sold At Pratt Street Store

PHILADELPHIA, PA —Some lucky winner out there is holding a ticket worth half a million bucks.

A Pennsylvania Lottery retailer in Philadelphia sold a Powerball with Double Play ticket worth $500,000 for the Saturday, July 8, drawing.

The ticket matched five of the five Double Play balls drawn, 12-23-30-42-62, but not the Double Play Powerball number 21, to win $500,000, less applicable withholding.

EZ Smoke Plus, 1542 Pratt St., Philadelphia, earns a $500 bonus for selling the winning ticket.

The Pennsylvania Lottery introduced the Double Play feature when it launched a third weekly drawing on Mondays in August 2021. Drawings are held Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.

Double Play is an optional feature that, for an additional $1 per play, gives players another chance to win with their Powerball numbers in a separate drawing with a top cash prize of $10 million. The Double Play drawing is held after every Powerball drawing.

Winners are not known until prizes are claimed and tickets are validated.

Pennsylvania Lottery Powerball winners have one year from the drawing date to claim prizes. Winning tickets purchased at a Lottery retailer should immediately be signed on the back. Online winnings automatically appear in a player’s account after the claim has been processed. Players may visit palottery.com for more information about how to file a claim.

More than 114,900 other PA Lottery Powerball tickets won prizes of various amounts in the drawing, including more than 24,200 tickets purchased with Power Play and more than 9,900 tickets purchased with Double Play. Players should check every ticket, every time.

The Powerball jackpot rolled to an estimated annuity value of $650 million, or $328.3 million cash, for the next drawing tonight, July 10.

Pennsylvania Lottery players have options to purchase their Powerball tickets online or by visiting a retailer. Players can find lottery-selling locations closest to them by visiting the Find a Retailer section of the Lottery’s website.