Elizabeth Webb of Winston-Salem took a chance on a Powerball ticket and won a $100,000 prize.
She purchased her winning ticket using Online Play. Webb’s $3 Power Play ticket matched numbers on four of the white balls and the Powerball in the July 14 drawing to win her $50,000.
Webb’s prize doubled to $100,000 when the 2X multiplier was drawn. The odds of matching four white balls and the Powerball in a drawing are 1 in 913,129.
She claimed her prize Monday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh. After required federal and state tax withholdings, Webb took home $70,751.
No one won Saturday’s Powerball jackpot. Wednesday’s drawing offers a $211 million jackpot as an annuity prize or $153.9 million cash. The odds of winning a Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292 million.
Beginning Monday, Aug. 23, Powerball will add a Monday night drawing to the current schedule of Wednesday and Saturday nights drawings. Tickets will still remain at $2 and the odds of winning any of the nine prizes in each drawing will stay the same.
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 like Powerball make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $900 million a year for education. For details on how $21.2 million raised by the lottery made a difference in Forsyth County in 2020, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.