Maryland Lottery players in Harford County and Montgomery County woke up a little happier today as they each won a $50,000 Powerball third-tier prize from last night’s drawing. Nobody hit the jackpot which is now an estimated annuit value of $786 million ($341.6 million cash value) for the next drawing on Wednesday, Aug. 5.
One of the $50,000 winning tickets was purchased at Anchor Liquors at 1321 Riverside Parkway in Belcamp. The other ticket was bought at Sagar Beer & Wine at 615 South Frederick Avenue in Gaithersburg.
Each ticket matched four of the first five winning numbers and the Powerball number, just missing the jackpot. The winning numbers drawn were 8, 30, 41, 48, 54 and Powerball 4. The winners have 182 days from the drawing date to claim the prize.
The last time the Powerball jackpot was hit was on May 2, with two winning tickets in Florida and Texas splitting the prize. Since May 2, Powerball players in Maryland have won more than $6.5 million in prizes, including:
- Two $1 million prizes on tickets sold last week at the 7-Eleven, 8905 Rhode Island Avenue in College Park and the Royal Farms at 1558 Annapolis Road in Odenton.
- A $100,000 prize claimed by a Harford County resident.
- And 15 prizes of $50,000. In addition to the two winners last night in Belcamp and Gaithersburg, there have been $50,000 winning tickets sold in Annapolis (2), Beltsville, Bethesda, Catonsville, Greenbelt, Hyattsville, North Beach, North East, Nottingham, Sykesville, Waldorf and Wheaton.
In the three months that the Powerball jackpot has been rolling:
- The Maryland Lottery’s Powerball sales have been more than $29.9 million.
- Maryland Lottery retailers have made more than $1.7 million in commissions from Powerball sales.
- Powerball sales have returned an estimated $7.4 million to State of Maryland programs and services (25 cents of each dollar worth of Maryland Lottery sales is directed to state programs).
Powerball drawings are held Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights with a jackpot that starts at $20 million and grows after each drawing in which the jackpot is not won. Tickets are $2 and are sold in 45 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the United Kingdom. Five winning numbers are drawn from a range of 1 to 69, along with one winning Powerball number from a range of 1 to 26. Players win the jackpot by matching all five numbers plus the Powerball number. The game also has eight other prize levels that range from $4 to $1 million.
Winners of prizes larger than $25,000 must redeem tickets at the Maryland Lottery Customer Resource Center in Baltimore, which is open by appointment only. More information is available on the How to Claim page of the Lottery website.
