Powerball players miss jackpot — but win big in NC. Where were tickets sold?
Two Powerball players won big in North Carolina — but might not know it yet.
The players bought tickets that matched all but one number picked in the April 19 drawing, making each of them worth $50,000, results show.
The winning numbers: white balls 7-25-37-39-63, with red Powerball 1.
One of the winning tickets was sold online to a player in Raeford, a roughly 75-mile drive southwest from Raleigh. Meanwhile, the other player bought their lucky ticket at the Food Lion grocery store on West Sugar Creek Road in Charlotte, the N.C. Education Lottery wrote on its website and in an email to McClatchy News.
The lucky players spent $2 on their tickets, which matched four of the white balls and the red ball to win big. Each of the tickets was one number from scoring the estimated jackpot prize of $129 million, according to the Powerball website.
“Remember to check your numbers,” lottery officials wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
As of early April 21, the two prizes hadn’t been claimed. In North Carolina, Powerball winners have about six months to cash in, according to game rules.
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.
