Powerball player misses $55 million jackpot — but still wins big in North Carolina
A Powerball player just missed a $55 million jackpot — but is still set to get richer in North Carolina.
The player bought a ticket that matched all but one number picked in the July 13 drawing. Since the person spent an extra dollar on the Power Play option, their $50,000 prize doubled to $100,000, according to drawing results and game rules.
The winning numbers: white balls 9-55-59-66-69, with red Powerball 21.
The ticket was sold in the Hickory area, a roughly 55-mile drive northwest from Charlotte. It came from a Jack B Quick convenience store on Old N.C. Highway 10, the N.C. Education Lottery wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The player’s ticket matched four of the white balls and the red ball to win big. It was one number away from scoring the jackpot prize, which stood at an estimated $55 million, according to the Powerball website.
No one hit the jackpot, so a $2 million ticket from Illinois won the largest prize the night of the national drawing, McClatchy News reported.
Lottery officials shared news of the $100,000 North Carolina prize over the weekend, before the winner would have had the chance to claim the prize in person. The state gives lucky ticket holders about six months to cash in.
What to know about Powerball
To score the jackpot in the Powerball, a player must match all five white balls and the red Powerball.
The odds of scoring the jackpot prize are 1 in 292,201,338.
Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state.
Drawings are broadcast Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:59 p.m. ET and can be streamed online.
Powerball is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
