Powerball players just miss $217 million jackpot — but still win big in Illinois
The tickets matched five winning numbers but not the Powerball in the drawing Wednesday, July 9, the Illinois Lottery said.
A Powerball player in Texas won $2 million, lottery officials said. Two players won $1 million prizes in Massachusetts, and players also won $1 million in Florida and Nebraska.
Nobody won the grand prize, which rises to an estimated $234 million, with a cash value of about $106.6 million, for the next drawing Saturday, July 12, the national Powerball site said.
The winning numbers July 9 were 5, 9, 25, 28 and 69, with a Powerball of 5. The Power Play multiplier was 2x.
More than 415,000 other Powerball tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $4 to $100,000, the lottery said.
The Powerball jackpot was last won May 31, when a California player hit the $204.5 million grand prize.
What to know about Powerball
To score a 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.
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