Any Connecticut Powerball Winners On The Oct 24th,2018 Drawing?

Connecticut had '51,621' winning Powerball tickets sold for last night's $750 million jackpot. How much money did you win?

Connecticut residents bank check your Powerball tickets from last dark's drawing equally there were 51,621 "winning" tickets sold in the state for the $750 million jackpot, which was one by two people in New York and Iowa. In Connecticut, ii $150,000 winning tickets were sold forth with ii $l,000 winners. Neat and much better than nosotros fared during the $one.half dozen billion Mega Millions jackpot where the top Connecticut prize was $30,000.

A total of 75 people won $300 and 164 people won $100. The rest of usa won betwixt $4 and $21, according to the Connecticut Lottery. Now that someone has won the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots, it means both drawings are back to $40 million.

The winning Powerball numbers for Sat, Oct. 27, are: 08, 12, 13, nineteen, 27 and the Powerball of 04 .

Saturday'southward Powerball drawing was the tertiary largest in history. The largest Powerball jackpot was $1.586 billion, which was shared past winners in California, Florida and Tennessee in January 2016. Someone in South Carolina claimed the $ane.half-dozen billion Mega Millions jackpot on Oct. 23.

The Powerball game is played by matching all five white balls in whatsoever order and the crimson Powerball number. The odds of picking the right Powerball yard prize numbers are one in 292,201,338. Powerball tickets cost $2 each, and are sold at thousands of Lottery retailers. Find out where you tin can buy your Powerball tickets here.

In nearly states, ticket sales cut off at least an hr before the drawing, only a country may cut off sales before, such as Illinois, which ends sales three hours before the drawing. In Maryland and New Jersey, ticket sales stop at 9:59 p.m.; in Virginia, they close at 10 p.m. Check with your state lottery for the sales cut-off time.

You lot have a amend chance of hitting the jackpot if you allow the computer choice your numbers, co-ordinate to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which operates the Powerball game and reports that virtually 75 percent of winning tickets take numbers chosen by a computer.

The largest Powerball jackpots ever are every bit follows:

$1.586 billion, Jan. 13, 2016
$758.vii million, Aug. 23, 2017
$620 meg, Oct. 24, 2018
$590.5 meg, May 18, 2013
$587.5 meg, Nov. 28, 2012
$564.ane 1000000, February. xi, 2015
$559.7 million, January. 6, 2018
$487.0 million, July 30, 2016
$456 one thousand thousand, March 17, 2018
$448.four million, Aug. 7, 2013
$447.eight million, June 10, 2017
$435.iii one thousand thousand, February. 22, 2017

When millions more players take part in the game at times there's a huge jackpot, that doesn't change your odds of winning, the lottery says. The odds of winning a prize are the same in every Powerball drawing — you have a one in 24.9 chance of winning a prize when the jackpot reaches $xl million or $1 billion.

The lottery game is played in 44 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Powerball drawings can be seen on 125 Tv stations nationwide. They may also be bachelor on cable or your mobile device. Drawing shows are likewise posted to Powerball.com under the video department and to YouTube.

Claiming, Safeguarding Winnings

And then, what should you practice if you are lucky enough to merits the Powerball jackpot? Many lottery winners hire an chaser, financial planner or both, since well-nigh people don't exactly know what to practice when they suddenly come into and then much coin. Some even bring their lawyer with them to merits their prize. The lottery does not offer any counseling services or financial communication for winners.

You lot have ii choices when you lot merits your prize: the full value paid in 30 installments over 29 years, or a i-fourth dimension lump sum that is smaller than the bodily total. Then there are the taxes. The federal tax on lottery winnings is 25 pct. And then, whatsoever actress income taxes like country or metropolis would apply.

Financial experts say that if you tin can get more than a three or 4 percentage return on an investment, the lump sum is really the best way to go in the long-term.

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Patch Editor Deb Belt contributed to this story.

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