The holiday season in Maryland was made a touch brighter for Powerball players, as over 136,000 tickets purchased in the state for the Christmas Eve drawing nabbed prizes, ranging from small to substantial sums. This impressive number of winning tickets was revealed by lottery officials, while the much-anticipated $1.8 billion jackpot landed in Arkansas, setting records as the second-largest prize in the game’s history, Fox Baltimore reported.
Among the winners, the largest Maryland prizes included a single $100,000-winning ticket sold at Dash In in Annapolis and four other tickets each worth $50,000. These were sold at businesses peppered across the state, from Elkridge’s Royal Farms to a 7-Eleven in Germantown and Safeway stores in both Middletown and Wheaton.
Indeed, the run-up to the record-setting Christmas Eve Powerball drawing saw a dramatic increase in ticket sales, with final figures inflating an already life-changing $1.7 billion prize to a new height of $1.817 billion. The winning numbers, later announced as 4, 25, 31, 52, 59 with Powerball 19, became a combination for success for many across the state, according to WBAL.
