Winning Ticket Sold For Powerball Jackpot; Get The Winning Numbers

CLEVELAND, OH — A single winning ticket was sold for the $758.7 million Powerball Jackpot — but it wasn’t at an Ohio dealer. The Massachusetts State Lottery announced early Thursday morning that the winning ticket was sold at a convenience store in Massachusetts.

Mavis Wanczyk, 53, came forward to claim the jackpot this morning. It is the largest lottery prize taken home by a single winner in the history of North America. The largest Powerball prize was a $1.5 billion jackpot last January, but that was split by three winners.

Although the jackpot winner was not sold in Ohio, one person bought a ticket with the five correct white-ball numbers, and will win a $1 million, reported the Ohio Lottery today. That ticket was sold at Johnson’s Grocery in Hamilton.

The winning numbers to the drawing Wednesday night are: 6, 7, 16, 23, 26 and the Powerball is 4. (To stay up to date on local stories, subscribe to the Patch Cleveland newsletter. As news breaks and the story develops, you will be the first to receive updates from Patch.)

While you may not have gotten all the right numbers, you may still have picked a couple — and could be eligible to win anything from $4 for getting the Powerball right to $1 million for matching all five white-ball numbers.

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Unless you won the jackpot, the $1 million payout or a $50,000 prize, payouts can be claimed at lottery retailers. Larger prizes have to be claimed through the Ohio Lottery.

The last Ohio jackpot winner was Mary Ann Thompson of Conneaut, when she won $124.9 million in July 2014, said Ohio Lottery spokeswoman Danielle Babb. (To stay up to date on local stories, subscribe to the Patch Cleveland newsletter. As news breaks and the story develops, you will be the first to receive updates from Patch.)

Since Ohio joined the multi-state Powerball game in 2010 in two other winning tickets have been sold in the state, one for a $261.6 million jackpot to a blind trust from Sunbury, Ohio, in June 2010, and the other for a $97 million jackpot for a group of auto shop workers from Detroit who bought their ticket at a Toledo-area carryout.