Powerball winner

Powerball winner

Powerball winners have made big money this year, and the Powerball winner last night took a tidy sum. The Powerball winning jackpot last night had gonePowerball Winner Hits $193M Jackpot in FloridaCostumes Party Ideas Kids and Safety Movies and Music Scary Stories More » up to $193, and was getting close to making big headlines again. But before it got bigger, a Powerball winner emerged from Florida to take the jackpot before it went over $200 million. It wasn't the biggest lottery grand prize of the year, but the Powerball winner got one of the biggest individual payouts of the season.

According to CBS 4 in South Florida, a winning ticket from Florida got all five Powerball numbers, as well as the Powerball itself. The winning numbers were 12, 24, 48, 50 and 57, with the Powerball at 22. Allegedly, one Florida player was the only big Powerball winner of the night. Therefore, the Powerball winner gets the full $193 million jackpot, either in a series of payments or a lump sum. It was the first successful draw in some time, as the lottery game was starting to near its jackpot heights from earlier this summer.

Powerball and Mega Millions each went up to over $300 million in their jackpots a few months ago, but had stayed relatively quiet since then. The Powerball jackpot was starting to inch closer to those big numbers, before the Powerball winner in Florida hit it big. Now the jackpot goes back to a mere $20 million for the next drawing on Wednesday. Only a few other players came close to the big payday, by hitting the first five Powerball numbers. Just two players will get the $200,000 second prize for that, as those tickets were sold in Indiana and Arizona.