Saturday’s Powerball drawing produced a $ 1 million prize for someone who bought a ticket at a Wake County store.
The lucky ticket won the biggest national prize at Saturday’s draw.
The winner bought the ticket at Bayleaf Convenience & Deli on Six Forks Road in Raleigh and has 180 days from the draw to claim their prizes.
The $ 2 bill matched the numbers on all five white balls, 1-16-48-49-65. The matching odds of all five white balls in a Powerball drawing are 1 to 11.6 million.
No one won the Powerball jackpot on Saturday. The jackpot will go up to $ 42 million annually or $ 31 million in cash for Wednesday’s draw. The odds of winning a Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292 million.
Players can purchase Powerball tickets through the online game on the lottery website, www.nclottery.com, with the official NC Lottery mobile app or at any lottery retail location.
Draw games like Powerball make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $ 725 million a year for education.