While a lucky individual purchased the sole $256 million jackpot-winning Powerball ticket in Queens earlier this month, all New Yorkers are benefiting from the 7, 2024 Powerball drawing with $13.1 million in combined aid to education and retailer commissions and hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional prizes.

A $50,000 third-prize Powerball ticket was sold at Mars Deli on 48th Avenue in Woodside for the December 23 drawing, according to the New York

The New York Lottery announced that the two winning tickets for the Dec. 11 drawing matched four white balls and the red Powerball. One prize-winning ticket each was sold at Tops Markets, located at 345 Amherst St., in Buffalo, and at Wegmans, located at 7952 Brewerton Rd., in Cicero.

A Powerball ticket sold in Washington won $50,000, but just missed the $124 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The ticket matched four winning Powerball numbers and the Power

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are long. Players have a one in 292,201,338 shot at winning the grand prize, a one in 11,688,053.52 shot at winning the $1 million prize and a one in 24.87 chance of winning any prize.

It’s been a busy month for lottery players. The Mega Millions jackpot now stands at a $1.15 billion ahead of a Dec. 27 drawing, after a Christmas Eve drawing failed to yield a winner. That makes it the largest such prize for either of the two big multistate lottery games — Mega Millions and Powerball — in the holiday-filled month of December,