{"id":181244,"date":"2025-08-28T01:59:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/181244\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T01:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:59:25","slug":"1-million-powerball-ticket-sold-in-houston-850-million-jackpot-drawing-wednesday-night-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/181244\/","title":{"rendered":"$1 million Powerball ticket sold in Houston; $850 million jackpot drawing Wednesday night \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP22301725668470.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-436325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP22301725668470.jpg\" alt=\"Powerball tickets\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2002\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Keith Srakocic<\/p>\n<p>A rack with cards bettors can use to choose their own numbers to purchase lottery tickets for the Saturday, Oct. 29, drawing of the Powerball lottery are on a counter at a market in Prospect, Pa., Friday, Oct. 28, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>A $1 million Powerball ticket was sold in Houston on Monday. But an estimated $850 million jackpot is still up for grabs with the next drawing scheduled for Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p>The million-dollar Powerball ticket with all five matching white-ball numbers was purchased in Southeast Houston at the Broadway Food Store at 3602 Broadway St., according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texaslottery.com\/export\/sites\/lottery\/Games\/Powerball\/Winning_Numbers\/details.html_1157455279.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Lottery<\/a>. A winner has not yet come forward.  The winning numbers on Monday were 16, 19, 34, 37 and 64. The sixth number, the red Powerball number, was 22.<\/p>\n<p>The next drawing will take place Wednesday night at 10 p.m. According to the Powerball website, the estimated jackpot for Wednesday night is $850 million, with a cash value of $383.7 million. The deadline to purchase a ticket is 9 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>To win the jackpot, players must get all five white numbers and the red Powerball number correct. Numbers for the five white balls must be between 1 and 69, while the red Powerball number must be between 1 and 26. <\/p>\n<p>There are a total of 9 ways to win, but the jackpot is only awarded if a player gets all six numbers correct. The jackpot amount continues to grow until it is won.  <\/p>\n<p>Powerball tickets currently cost $2 per play in Texas, but an additional dollar can multiply the potential winnings by a random multiplier that&#8217;s announced at each drawing. <\/p>\n<p>Winning tickets must be claimed no later than 180 days after the date of the drawing. Retailers that sell jackpot-winning Powerball tickets are eligible to receive bonuses of up to $1 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/texas\/2025\/06\/25\/524901\/texas-lottery-commission-to-be-disbanded-as-state-game-gets-new-restrictions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Lottery Commission to be disbanded as state game gets new restrictions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo\/Keith Srakocic A rack with cards bettors can use to choose their own numbers to purchase lottery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":181245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,425,50,85800,358,99129,102252,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-181244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-local","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-powerball-lottery","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-lottery","14":"tag-texas-powerball","15":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115103922178360958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}