Just because a $700 million Powerball jackpot hit and reset does not mean that there were not big winners! This follows what was certainly a historic week for lottery winners.
In fact, the last Powerball drawing, on Jan. 23, yielded a new jackpot winner plus an eye-popping 43 second-place winners with prizes ranging from $1 million to $2 million.
Thus, this means that for Wednesday, Jan. 27, the Powerball jackpot resets again to $20 million with a cash value of $15 million.
Winning Powerball numbers for Wednesday, Jan. 27
Check your Powerball tickets on Wednesdays and Saturdays after 11 p.m. EST. The winning numbers for tonight’s drawing are posted below.
Winning numbers: 17 – 33 – 35 – 42 – 52 Powerball: 9
Multiplier: 3X
Largest number of new Powerball millionaires in five years
It was a night of Powerball millionaires with a gigantic tally including a jackpot winner plus 43 winning second-place tickets. The winning numbers for Jan. 23 were 5 – 8 – 17 – 27 – 28 and a Powerball of 14.
The New Jersey jackpot winner walked away with $23.2 million. And 35 tickets managed to match all five white balls for $1 million:
- Arizona (2)
- California (7)
- Florida (4)
- Illinois
- Massachusetts
- Missouri
- Montana
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- New Jersey
- New York (11)
- Texas
- New Mexico
- Washington
- Wisconsin
Finally, eight tickets doubled their prizes from $1 million to $2 million just by tacking on the $1 Power Play option:
- Florida (2)
- Georgia
- New Hampshire
- Illinois
- New Jersey
- New York
- Puerto Rico
PA online lottery offers mobile tickets
Try buying tonight’s Powerball tickets through the PA online lottery. The state-run lottery offers an alternative to buying physical lottery tickets from a retailer. Rather, you can purchase tickets and play lottery games from a desktop, web browser or even the mobile app.
Finally, Pennsylvania is not the only state where online lottery sales are available. Other states also allow Powerball sales online:
- New York
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Kentucky
- Michigan
- New Hampshire
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Virginia
Win or lose, please play responsibly.