A lucky Massachusetts State Lottery player bought a winning Powerball ticket worth $1 million at the Leicester Package Store on Saturday.
The liquor store is located near the intersection of Main Street and Route in Leicester.
In Powerballplayers select five numbers between 1 and 69 and one Powerball number between 1 and 26. They then choose how many drawings they want to use those numbers for.
Players who match all five numbers and the Powerball number win the jackpot. They have a 1 in 292,201,338 chance of winning this way.
Players who match all five numbers but not the Powerball number win $1 million. They have a 1 in 11,688,053.52 chance of winning this way.
Saturday’s winning numbers were 12, 17, 23, 52 and 67, and the Powerball number was 1. The Powerball jackpot prize is $55 million as of Sunday. Powerball drawings are held every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at 10:59 p.m
In all, at least 217 prizes worth $600 or more were won or claimed Saturday in Massachusetts, including five in Springfield and 11 in Worcester.
The Massachusetts State Lottery release a complete list of winning tickets every day. The list only includes winning tickets worth more than $600.
So far, the the largest lottery prize won in Massachusetts this year it was worth a million dollars a year for life.
The prize was from the lottery”Millions of life” scratch card game. The The winner claimed their prize through a trust on July 10 and opted to receive a one-time payment of $15.4 million.