Powerball’s first Monday night drawing produced a $1 million prize for someone who bought a ticket at a grocery store in Wilson County.
The winner bought the ticket at the Harris Teeter on Raleigh Road Parkway West in Wilson. The lucky ticket won the highest prize nationally in Powerball’s first Monday night drawing.
The $2 ticket matched the numbers on all five white balls, 17-36-47-60-61. The odds of matching all five white balls in a Powerball drawing are 1 in 11.6 million.
The winner has 180 days from the drawing to claim their prize.
The Monday night Powerball drawing joins the current schedule of Wednesday and Saturday night drawings. Tickets remain at $2 and the odds of winning any of the nine prizes in each drawing stays the same.
No one won Monday’s Powerball jackpot. If someone in North Carolina wins Wednesday’s jackpot, they have the choice of taking their prize as a $304 million annuity or a lump sum of $222.2 million.
The odds of winning a Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292 million.
Players can buy Powerball tickets through Online Play on the lottery’s website, www.nclottery.com, with the NC Lottery Official Mobile App, or at any lottery retail location.
Draw games such as Powerball make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $900 million a year for education. For details on how $18.9 million raised by the lottery made a difference in Wilson County in 2020, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.