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“My heart just dropped,” she told lottery officials when she realized she had won. She said she used some of her favorite numbers to play and she plans to use her windfall to pay her bills. Butler was only one of three people to win $150,000 in that drawing, which was the second-highest prize won that night, Powerball results show.
Powerball tickets are $2 per play. Tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24.9. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
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Two Powerball tickets sold in New York and Washington, D.C., won $1 million each but just missed the $483 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The tickets matched five winning numbers but not the Powerball in the drawing Wednesday, March 26, the national Powerball site said.