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Here are the winning Powerball numbers and lottery jackpot results for the $477 million lotto drawing on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023.
Georgia, which joined Powerball in 1995, and sold The Big Game and Powerball tickets for a few days in 1996 before being forced out of Powerball, rejoined Powerball on January 31, 2010. Powerball began in 1992; the Power Play option in 2001. In January 2012, the price of a Powerball play increased to $2, or $3 with Power Play.
Scratch-offs, now the Lottery's best-selling game, became available on February 10, 1976. [5] Pick 3 was introduced in July 1976. [5] In April 1983, Pick 4 began. [5] Keno, initially played only at Lottery retailers equipped with monitors, began in January 1993. (Keno expanded to Keno Bonus in 1999, and Keno Super Bonus in 2009). [6]
Powerball Feb 6, 2023 WA [24] 16 $731.1m $546.8m 1 $546.8m Powerball Jan 20, 2021 MD [25] 17 $699.8m $496m 1 $496m Powerball Oct 4, 2021 CA: First Powerball jackpot won in a Monday drawing. [26] 18 $687.8m $396.2m 2 $198.1m Powerball Oct 27, 2018 IA, NY [27] 19 $656m $474m 3 $158m Mega Millions Mar 30, 2012 IL, KS, MD [28] 20 $648m $347.6m 2 ...
Its In-house draw games are Pick-3, Pick-4, Jersey Cash 5, Pick-6, Quick Draw, and Cash Pop. Its multi-jurisdictional draw games are Cash4Life, Mega Millions, and Powerball. The Lottery also sells Fast Play and scratch-off tickets. The New Jersey Lottery is headquartered at One Lawrence Park Complex in Lawrence Township, Mercer County. [5]
Winning the five-figure jackpot meant beating odds of 1-in-913,129.
The first modern government-run US lottery was established in Puerto Rico in 1934. [8] This was followed, decades later, by the New Hampshire Lottery in 1964. Instant lottery tickets, also known as scratch cards, were introduced in the 1970s and have become a major source of lottery revenue.
Lottery drawings are held to determine the winning numbers. Depending on the lottery game, drawings are held four minutes apart (Club Keno), twice a day (Daily 3 and Daily 4), daily (Fantasy 5 with Double Play, Poker Lotto and Keno!) or twice a week (Powerball, Mega Millions, and Lotto 47 with Double Play).