Saturday’s Powerball jackpot reaches estimated annuity of $243 million
Check your Powerball tickets closely if you added Double Play for the Wednesday, Sept. 25 drawing. A $500,000-winning ticket was purchased in Frederick.
A player bought the Double Play second-tier winning ticket at Wawa, located at 5440 Urbana Pike in Frederick County. The winning Double Play numbers from the Wednesday, Sept. 25 drawing are 06, 32, 51, 62 and 69; the Powerball was 26.
This is the sixth second- or third-tier Double Play winning ticket sold in Maryland in 2024. Last night, Maryland had 1,359 Double Play winners of prizes ranging from $7 to $500,000.
Double Play is a second drawing that occurs 30 minutes after each Powerball drawing, giving players a chance to win up to $10 million with the same ticket numbers. Players can add the feature to Powerball tickets for $1.
There was no jackpot, second-tier or third-tier Powerball winners last night in Maryland in the regular drawing, although 11,510 players won prizes of $4 to $200 (on a ticket with the Power Play option). The jackpot for the Sept. 28 drawing has rolled to an estimated $243 million annuity and has an estimated cash option of $122.2 million.
Lottery officials encourage all winners to sign the backs of their tickets immediately and put them in a safe location. They get 182 days from the date of the drawing to claim their prizes.
Instructions for claiming prizes are available on the How to Claim page of the Lottery website. Prizes of more than $25,000 must be claimed through Lottery headquarters, either in person or by mail. Lottery headquarters is in the Montgomery Park Business Center, 1800 Washington Blvd., Suite 330, in Baltimore. An appointment is required to claim in person (no walk-ins). The appointment scheduling page shows all available appointment times.
