Player bought lucky ticket in Wednesday’s drawing
Check your Powerball tickets from the Nov. 11 drawing, Maryland! Even though no one hit the jackpot, we had a $50,000-winning ticket sold in our state along with 13,543 other winning tickets ranging from $4 to $100. Congratulations!
The Maryland Lottery is looking for the player who bought the $50,000-winning ticket at Auburn Exxon located at 7975 Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda. The winning numbers were 13, 15, 17, 45 and 63; the Powerball was 13 and the Power Play multiplier was 2. This is the 35th $50,000 Powerball winner in Maryland during 2020.
Lottery officials encourage all winners to sign the backs of their tickets immediately and put them in a safe location. Winners typically get 182 days from the date of the drawing to claim prizes. However, the Lottery has temporarily extended claiming deadlines due to Maryland’s COVID-19 state of emergency.
The $50,000 winner can claim the prize by mail or in person by appointment at the Lottery headquarters’ Customer Resource Center located at 1800 Washington Blvd. in Baltimore. Winners of smaller prizes can claim them by mail, at Lottery retailers or by appointment at Lottery headquarters. Get details on how to claim by mail here, how to schedule an appointment here and how to cash prizes of up to $5,000 at Lottery retailers here.
The Powerball jackpot has now rolled to $168 million for the Saturday, Nov. 14 drawing with a cash option of $131.5 million. The last Powerball jackpot win was for $94.8 million and came in the Sept. 16 drawing, with the winning ticket sold in New York.
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 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets cost $2 each. Odds of winning the jackpot are approximately 292 million to 1. Overall odds of winning any prize are about 25 to 1.