If you bought a Powerball ticket for Wednesday night in Kansas or Missouri, there’s always next time to win the jackpot.
This morning, Powerball is reporting that there were three winners of the $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot, from tickets sold in California, Tennessee and Florida. Divided three ways, the jackpot for each ticket holder should be around $528.8 million.
Two persons in Kansas won $1 million each in the drawing, the Kansas Lottery reported. One was sold in southwest Kansas and the other in south central Kansas. The tickets matched the first five numbers but not the Powerball.
Seven Kansas tickets, including three in northeast Kansas, two in north central, one in south central and one in southeast Kansas, won $50,000 each.
Winning numbers in the Jan. 13 Powerball drawing: 04-08-19-27-34 Powerball 10. Power Play 2.
The cash option was $983.5 million.
Kansas Lottery officials said they set another record for highest Powerball sales in a single drawing on Wednesday. The total Kansas sales for the Powerball drawing were $9.68 million, surpassing the previous record of $6.77 million set last Saturday.
At the peak of the buying frenzy, about 5 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, players in Kansas were buying Powerball tickets at the rate of $12,140 per minute, Kansas officials said.
Sales from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday in Kansas weren’t far behind, averaging $11,446 a minute. Single-day sales for Wednesday were a whopping $5.31 million.