A Missouri Lottery player who won a $50,000 Powerball prize from a Double Play drawing on Nov. 23, 2024, came forward to claim his prize after realizing he had won months after the fact.
The player purchased the ticket at Sam’s Market, 1280 Highway 100 in Pacific, but he didn’t claim his prize until April 7 after stopping at a Missouri Lottery retailer to claim what he thought was a free ticket.
“I actually thought that I had won a free ticket,” the player explained. “When I had the clerk scan it and he told me how much I won, I told him to check it again.”
He shared that when he originally scanned the ticket on the Missouri Lottery app to check if it was a winner, he only saw the winning message and didn’t think anything of it.
“All it said was that I had a winner,” he laughed.
Double Play is an add-on feature for Powerball, which automatically enters the player’s numbers into a second drawing conducted after the main Powerball drawing. The winning numbers for the Nov. 23 Double Play drawing were 36, 40, 41, 50 and 60 with a Powerball number of 13. The winner’s ticket matched four of the five white-ball numbers, as well as the Powerball number drawn.
Powerball is a multi-state Draw Game with drawings held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 9:59 p.m.
In FY24, players in Franklin County won more than $24.6 million in Missouri Lottery prizes, retailers received more than $2.1 million in commissions and bonuses, and more than $5.9 million in Lottery proceeds went to education programs in the county.
