Jackpot rolls to $277 million for Jan. 11 drawing
Check your Powerball tickets from last night’s drawing, Maryland! Even though no one hit the $258 million jackpot, there was a $50,000-winning ticket sold in our state and 17,956 other winning Maryland tickets sold that won prizes ranging from $4 to $100.
The Maryland Lottery is looking for the lucky player who bought the $50,000-winning ticket from Weis Markets #228 located at 1238 Putty Hill Avenue in Towson. The winning numbers were 2, 4, 7, 43 and 56; the Powerball was 22. Lottery officials encourage all winners to sign the back of their tickets immediately and put them in a safe location. Our $50,000 winner has 182 days to claim the prize in person at Lottery headquarters, located at 1800 Washington Blvd. in Baltimore.
The Powerball jackpot rolled to $277 million for the Jan. 11 drawing with a cash option of $188.4 million.
In 2019, Maryland had five $1 million Powerball wins. This is our second $50,000-winning ticket sold in 2020. Still unclaimed is a winning ticket in the Jan. 1 drawing sold by Safeway #1559 in Middletown.
Watch televised Powerball drawings at 11:22 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays on WBAL-TV. Winning numbers are available at mdlottery.com and on your smartphone by downloading the free MD Lottery app. Powerball is offered in 44 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets cost $2 each. Odds of winning the jackpot are approximately 1 in 292 million. Overall odds of winning any prize are about 1 in 25.