Powerball player just misses $237M prize, but still wins big in North Carolina
A Powerball player just missed a $237 million prize — but still won big in North Carolina.
The player bought a ticket that matched all but one number picked in the July 12 drawing, making it worth $50,000, results show.
The winning numbers: white balls 8-16-24-33-54, with red Powerball 18.
The lucky ticket was sold in Jacksonville, an area home to Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and a roughly 120-mile drive southeast from Raleigh. It came from a Food Lion grocery store, the N.C. Education Lottery wrote on its website and X, formerly known as Twitter.
The player is set to get richer after their $2 ticket matched four of the white balls and the red ball. It was one number from hitting the jackpot, which stood at an estimated $237 million the night of the drawing, according to the Powerball website.
As of early July 14, no one had claimed the $50,000 prize, a lottery spokesperson told McClatchy News via email. In North Carolina, Powerball winners have 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.
