$1 Million Winning Powerball Ticket Purchased in Aiken

A winning $1 million Powerball ticket was sold in Aiken this week.  If you bought a Powerball ticket there for the Monday, January 29, drawing, check your pockets.  You could have a ticket worth $1 million.

The $1,000,000 ticket was sold at the Windsor Shell gas station/convenience store at 4467 Charleston Highway.  It was one number away from winning the Powerball grand prize.

The million dollar winning ticket for the $174 million jackpot matched all five white ball numbers which were 39, 41, 43, 49, 64 and the Powerball was 4.  Even matching the five numbers had odds of 1-in-11,688,054. according to a news release from the South Carolina Education Lottery. There were also $1 million winners in California and Texas. The Power Play was 2X.

South Carolina is one of 11 states that allow lottery winners to remain anonymous.  The other 10 states include Georgia, Arizona, Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Texas and Virgina.

The South Carolina Education Lottery issued advice to the winner.  "Sign the back of your ticket and put it in a safe location until you're ready to come forward to claim the prize."

Once the prize has been claimed, the gas station where the ticket was purchased will receive an estimated $10,000 commission for selling it.

More than 8,000 other players in South Carolina also won prizes in Monday night's drawing. Since there was no grand prize winner, however, the jackpot for Wednesday night's drawing is estimated to be at least $188 million.

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According to figures from the Georgia Lottery, the breakdown of winners from Monday's drawing includes;

The Powerball drawing takes place at 10:59 pm Eastern every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.  The $2 tickets are sold in 45 states, including Georgia and South Carolina, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are one in 292.2 million.

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Now while The Motley Fool has 35 things on their list, we just hand-picked a few of the oddest, or craziest, from the list to share.  If you want to see all 35, click here!

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Now while The Motley Fool has 35 things on their list, we just hand-picked a few of the oddest, or craziest, from the list to share.  If you want to see all 35, click here!

Yes, it's rare, but it's happened!  The odds are actually about 1 in 2,000 to 3,000.  Way better odds than the lottery!

We know there are a lot of avid golfers here in the Augusta area, and we also know a hole in one can be elusive. But there's still a better chance with that than winning the lottery!  The odds are about 1 in 3,000 for a tour player... and 1 in 12,000 for an average golfer.

Since being a movie star could bring some wealth along with it, you might consider taking a shot over playing the lottery.  The odds are estimated to be around 1 in 1.5 million.  Slim yes, but still better than 1 in 292 million!

Sure, golf seems like a fairly safe sport, but there's a 1 in 22,355 chance you could get seriously injured in a golf cart accident and be sent to the emergency room.

This depends on if you even eat oysters, but you might want to start!  You could be 1 in 12,000 to find a pearl. But they usually are more like a pebble than the pearl you think of when it comes to jewelry!

Getting struck by lightning has about a 1 in 1 million chance of happening.  Again, still better odds than the Powerball lottery winner!

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Identity theft is a growing problem.  Back in 2017, about 1 in 15 people reported being a victim! And we can only imagine with more technology... this number is probably growing!

Yes, that would mean 12 strikes in a row to get a perfect 300 in your bowling game.  But, for an average bowler, that's a 1 in 11,500 chance.  And 1 in 460 for a professional bowler!

From the 2021 class, acceptance rate from those who applied was about 5.2%.  That's about a 1 in 20 chance of getting into Harvard. But, that does mean you'd have to apply.  And we all know Harvard students are usually above-average students, but even though an average student would have lower odds of getting in-- there's still a better chance than winning the Powerball jackpot!