Powerball Surpasses Half a Billion - Let's Revisit Top Prize Wins

LUCK IN VICTORIA:

As far as I know, there has been three top-prize scratch jackpot wins in Victoria this year. Back in July, a $1,000,000.00 scratch jackpot was sold in Victoria! The ticket was sold at Walden's Mini Mart on Moody Street. The winning ticket was the $20 Million Dollar Loteria ticket. This was the 9th $1 million jackpot ticket in this series.

In May, a $500,000 Texas Two-Step Lotto Drawing single ticket matched all 4 numbers AND the bonus numbers. The ticket was sold at the 7-11 on Sam Houston Drive. In case you bought your Texas Two Step numbers there. Here are the winning numbers 6-8-24-29 with a bonus number of 24.

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In January a $5 Rose Gold scratch ticket with a top prize of $100,000 was sold at the Snax Max at the corner of Navarro and Mockingbird. That winning ticket did not match any of the numbers, it was an auto-win money pot symbol! Imagine seeing this when you scratch for your prize.

POWERBALL ON THE RISE:

Lotto fever is heating up once again, no one has matched all the numbers for the Powerball Lotto in weeks. Players will get another chance at the ever-growing prize on Wednesday, Oct. 19. The jackpot currently sits at $508 million with a cash value of $256.3 million. If you remember back to the summer of this year, Lotto fever took over with a $1.377 billion Mega Millions jackpot. Two people ultimately won that jackpot and chose to remain anonymous. Here are the top ten Powerball/Mega Millions jackpots of all-time!

$1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016
$1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018
$1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022
$1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021
$768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019
$758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017
$731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021
$699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021
$687.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 27, 2018
$656 million, Mega Millions, March 30, 2012

Current Jackpot: $508 million

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