1 VA Lottery Player Wins Big As Powerball Climbs To $1.73B

VIRGINIA — As the Powerball jackpot goes unclaimed yet again, one Virginia lottery player is celebrating a $1 million prize after matching the white balls but not the red Powerball number.

Nobody won the jackpot in Monday night's Powerball drawing, as the jackpot rises to $1.73 billion for Wednesday. The lottery said the Virginia ticketholder matched the five white balls to claim the $1 million prize. The winning ticket came from Lee’s Sandwiches at 3037 Annandale Road, Falls Church.

The Powerball numbers drawn were: white balls 16, 34, 46, 55, 67 and red Powerball 14. The Power Play multiplier was 3X.

The Monday night drawing produced more than 3.7 million winning tickets across the country, including four tickets (California, Indiana, Oregon, Virginia) that matched all five white balls to win $1 million prizes.

The Powerball jackpot spiked to an estimated $1.73 billion for the next drawing on Wednesday night. The jackpot has an estimated cash value of $756.6 million.

Wednesday’s estimated jackpot ranks as the second-largest Powerball jackpot and U.S. lottery jackpot, only behind the world record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot won in California on November 7, 2022.

The upcoming drawing will be the 36th drawing in the jackpot run, and the first time in Powerball history that back-to-back jackpot cycles have generated billion-dollar grand prizes. The Powerball jackpot was previously won on July 19, when a ticket in California won a jackpot worth $1.08 billion.

If you want a chance at the prize, make sure you get your tickets by 10 p.m. ET to be eligible for the drawing at 10:59 p.m. Eastern Time Saturday. Drawings are held three times a week, at 10:59 p.m. EST on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturday.

By law, all Virginia Lottery profits are required to be used by the Commonwealth for K-12 education. In 2021, the Virginia Lottery distributed $774.56 million to schools, according to the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries.

The Virginia Lottery says the state has had two Powerball winners in the game's history. A player who bought their $217 million ticket on Superbowl Sunday in 2013. And one ticket matched all six numbers in the March 4, 2023, Powerball drawing worth an estimated $161 million. The winning ticket was bought at Gill Brothers in Dublin, Virginia.

Powerball tickets are $2 per play. Tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. More than half of all proceeds from the sale of a Powerball ticket remain in the jurisdiction where the ticket was sold. Powerball drawings are also live streamed on Powerball.com.

The overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24.9. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.