Kentucky Lottery reports record sales for fiscal year

Powerball offers two jackpot payment options: the $110 million jackpot prize paid over 29 years in 30 graduated payments; or the cash option, which is approximately $69 million.

The biggest prize is saved for last as Saturday’s Powerball drawing features a $110 million jackpot since no one matched Wednesday’s winning numbers of 4, 22, 27, 28 and 52 with the Power Ball of 35.

If you missed it, the Lotto numbers for Wednesday July 29 were: 45, 31, 42, 47, 18, 21. While a $1 million win is fantastic, they were just one number away (the Powerball) from winning the $100 million jackpot. “This is the fourth year in a row that lottery sales have topped the $300 million mark. The plaza, a Lottery retailer since September 2010, earns a $100,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket”. According to the Multi-State Lottery Association, odds are 1 in 175,223,510.00 that you will become a multi-millionaire on Saturday night. Pick 4 winners receive $5,000 for a $1 straight bet and the odds of winning are 1-in-10,000. “Also in Friday’s drawing, a ticket sold in Ohio matched the five white balls to win $1 million”.

Mega Millions draws on Tuesdays and Fridays at 11 p.m. The odds of winning the jackpot with a $1 ticket are 1-in-258.9 million.

The lottery’s main prize was last won July 17, when $50-million was shared by 20 ticketholders in the Montreal suburb of Longueuil. The odds of winning the jackpot with a $1 ticket are 1-in-13,983,816.

As with all other Georgia Lottery games, proceeds from Powerball will benefit education in the state of Georgia.