A lottery ticket from a Falls Church wholesale store was worth $50,000 in a Powerball drawing over the weekend.
BJ’s Wholesale Club (6607 Wilson Blvd) sold the ticket, which was one of five $50,000 winners statewide. The winner beat roughly 1 in 900,000 odds to successfully match four numbers plus the Powerball.
Though a ticket sold in Richmond netted a $150,000 prize from Saturday’s drawing, nobody won the jackpot. The odds of doing so are 1 in 292 million.
The other four Virginia tickets that won $50,000 were sold at the following locations.
- Chantilly: 7-Eleven, 14533 Lee Road
- Norfolk: Food Lion, 1859 East Little Creek Road
- Powhatan: Murphy USA, 1860 Stavemill Crossing Lane
- Online, using the Virginia Lottery mobile app.
The game’s next drawing is scheduled for tonight (Monday) at 10:59 p.m., with a jackpot of $1.6 billion up for grabs — the fourth largest prize in the game’s history.
According to Powerball estimates, there is a 1-in-25 chance that players win any sort of prize, with rewards ranging from $4 up to the jackpot. All Virginia Lottery profits are used to help fund public schools across the commonwealth.
