Category Archives: Powerball

The Week in Winners: Powerball Millionaire Tops Lottery Leaderboard as Players Won $31.2 Million Last Week

The excitement of a massive Powerball jackpot had subsided by the beginning of last week after a $1.787 billion prize in the Sept. 6 drawing was shared by tickets sold in Missouri and Texas. But there is a chance for a substantial win in every drawing, as demonstrated by a Maryland Lottery player in Prince [...]

The Week in Winners: Powerball Makes a Millionaire, Delivers a Dozen More Big Wins in Maryland as Jackpot Roll Ends

Powerball was all the rage for the past week as the jackpot reached an annuity value of $1.787 billion for the Sept. 6 drawing, culminating with two winning tickets sold in Missouri and Texas. Though the jackpot was not hit in Maryland, Powerball players in the state won more than $13.4 million in prizes in [...]

Cockeysville Friends Sharing $50,000 Powerball Prize, Despite Disbelief

A Baltimore County pair stopped by lottery headquarters Sept. 5 to claim a prize that they still don’t quite believe is real. The once-in-a-while lottery players purchased tickets with their eyes on the billion-dollar Powerball jackpot, but had given not a thought to the game’s eight lower-tier prizes. No thought, that is, until they checked [...]

Powerball Makes Maryland Millionaire, Four $50K Winners as Jackpot Rolls to $1.7 Billion

As the Powerball jackpot grew to $1.7 billion because no one has matched all six numbers, the game continues making lower tier big winners in Maryland, including a $1 million prize on a ticket sold in Pikesville on the Wednesday (Sept. 3) drawing. The Wednesday drawing also produced four third-tier prizes of $50,000 each on [...]

Powerball Jackpot Grows to $1.4 Billion for Tonight’s Drawing

Powerball fever is in the air and Marylanders can purchase a ticket for tonight’s drawing until 9:59 p.m. This morning, the jackpot bumped up to an estimated annuity value of $1.4 billion with an estimated cash option of $634.3 million. This is the fourth-largest jackpot since the inception of Powerball in 1992, and the sixth-largest [...]