Tips for protecting your lottery win
Michigan Lottery says annual complaints impact only a tiny percentage of the agency’s 10,500 retailers, but all are taken seriously and investigated.
Mandi Wright, Wochit
The Powerball winning numbers are in for the Saturday, Dec. 13 drawing with a jackpot that reached an estimated $1.059 billion ($457.7 million cash value).
Drawings are held at 10:59 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
The winning numbers from the Saturday, Dec. 13 drawing are 1, 28, 31, 57 and 58. The Powerball was 16. The Power Play multiplier was 2x.
Nobody won the Powerball jackpot. The jackpot has now risen to $1.1 billion for the drawing on Monday, Dec. 15.
Two Match 5 + Power Play tickets worth $2 million each were sold in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Five Math 5 tickets worth $1 million were sold in Michigan, California, Florida, New Jersey and Virginia.
The next Powerball drawing is Monday, Dec. 15. Drawings are held at 10:59 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
In Michigan, in-store and online ticket sales are available until 9:45 p.m. on the night of the draw.
Powerball costs $2 to play. For an additional $1 per play, the Power Play feature can multiply non-jackpot prizes by two, three, four, five or 10 times.
The complete guide to winnings is:
- Match 5 White Balls + Powerball: Jackpot
- Match 5 White Balls: $1 million
- Match 4 White Balls + Powerball: $50,000
- Match 4 White Balls: $100
- Match 3 White Balls + Powerball: $100
- Match 3 White Balls: $7
- Match 2 White Balls + Powerball: $7
- Match 1 White Ball + Powerball: $4
- Match Powerball: $4
- Match 5 White Balls with Power Play: $2 million
- Match 4 White Balls + Powerball with Power Play: $200,000
- Match 4 White Balls with Power Play: $400
- Match 3 White Balls + Powerball with Power Play: $400
- Match 3 White Balls with Power Play: $28
- Match 2 White Balls + Powerball with Power Play: $28
- Match 1 White Ball + Powerball with Power Play: $16
- Match Powerball with Power Play: $16
The overall odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
Powerball drawings are broadcast live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. from the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee. Drawings are also lived streamed on Powerball.com. The winning numbers are posted to the Powerball and Michigan Lottery websites.
In-store Powerball purchasers can select the Double Play option to use their numbers in a second drawing immediately following the regular Powerball drawing for a chance to win additional prizes up to $10,000,000. Players can add the Double Play feature to their Powerball ticket for an additional $1 per play.
The Powerball Double Play drawing takes place between 11:30 and 11:40 p.m.
The Power Play multiplier does not apply to prizes won in the Double Play drawing.
