Powerball player wins $150,000 prize in North Carolina. Where was ticket sold?

Miami Herald

28-04-2025

A Powerball player just missed a massive jackpot prize — but still scored a big windfall in North Carolina.
The player bought a ticket that matched all but one number picked in the April 26 drawing. Since the person spent an extra dollar on the Power Play option, their $50,000 prize rose to $150,000, results show.
The winning numbers: white balls 1-12-14-18-69, with red ball 2. The Power Play multiplier was 3x.
The lucky ticket matched four of the white balls and the red ball to win big. It was sold for $3 at a Murphy Express gas station in Elkin, a roughly 45-mile drive northwest from Winston-Salem, the N.C. Education Lottery wrote on its website and on X, formerly known as Twitter.
While the player has a lot to celebrate, their ticket was one number from hitting the jackpot. Instead, a player in Kentucky scored the $167 million top prize, according to the Powerball website and the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Lottery officials shared the news over the weekend, before the lucky ticket holder would have had a chance to come forward. In North Carolina, Powerball winners have about six months to claim their prizes, rules show.
What to know about Powerball
To score the jackpot in the Powerball, a player must match all five white balls and the red Powerball.
The odds of scoring the jackpot prize are 1 in 292,201,338.
Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state.
Drawings are broadcast Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:59 p.m. ET and can be streamed online.
Powerball is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.