Five Powerball tickets sold in Washington were big winners despite missing the $1.44 billion jackpot, lottery officials said.
Three tickets matched four numbers and the Powerball, winning $50,000 in the Sept. 3 drawing, according to Washington’s Lottery. Another two tickets also had the Power Play add-on, bringing their winnings to $100,000, lottery officials said.
Nationwide, tickets won millions in prizes in the drawing, although no one took home the grand prize, McClatchy News reported.
The next drawing is Sept. 6, with an estimated $1.7 billion jackpot, the national Powerball website said.
Where were the winning Washington tickets sold?
Both of Washington’s $100,000 tickets were sold at Fred Meyer locations, according to lottery officials.
The stores are:
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5050 State Highway 303 NE, Bremerton
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1900 SE Sedgwick Road, Port Orchard
The $50,000 tickets were sold at the following stores:
The winning numbers for the Sept. 3 drawing were 3, 16, 29, 61 and 69 with a Powerball of 22. The Power Play multiplier was 2x.
In all, “a whopping 28 large prizes” have now been sold in the Evergreen State, “since the jackpot was last won on May 31, 2025,” lottery officials said. The prizes have ranged from $50,000 to $1 million.
Powerball winners across the US
Powerball tickets sold in Michigan, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming matched five winning numbers and the Power Play multiplier to win $2 million each in the Wednesday, Sept. 3 drawing, the national Powerball site said.
Tickets sold in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania matched five winning numbers but not the Powerball to win $1 million each. Two players in California, which adjusts lottery prize amounts based on the number of tickets sold and number of winners, won $984,000 each, the California Lottery said.
More than 6.3 million other Powerball tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $4 to $200, McClatchy News reported.
When is the next Powerball drawing?
Since the grand prize wasn’t won, it now increases to an estimated $1.7 billion, with a cash value of about $770.3 million, for the next drawing Saturday, Sept. 6, according to the national Powerball site.
Tickets are sold on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state.
Powerball is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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