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- A store in Brooklyn, NY, sold three Powerball tickets worth $50,000 each.
- All three were for the Aug, 12 drawing.
Three third-prize Powerball tickets worth $50,000 each were sold at the same Brooklyn store for the Aug. 12 drawing, according to the New York State Gaming Commission.
The tickets were purchased at the Hallmark store at 1619 Ave. U in Homecrest, officially listed as 1619 SRS Corp.
The winners have not come forward yet, according to officials, who say they do not yet know whether the tickets were bought by one person or multiple players.
‘A lucky place’
Jacquie Slater of the New York State Gaming Commission confirmed the triple win. She said it is possible that one person bought multiple tickets with the same number combination, but the identities of the winners are not known until tickets are claimed.
Store owner Jitendra Prajapati told the Brooklyn Eagle he was surprised to learn that three winning tickets were sold at his shop, calling it “a lucky place.” He also said this was the second time someone had won $50,000 at the store, with the previous win coming in 2017.
The winning numbers for the Aug. 12 drawing were 4, 26, 66, 67 and 69, with a Powerball of 9 and a Power Play multiplier of 2.
Other New York wins came as IL ticket hit jackpot
The Brooklyn tickets were part of a much larger Powerball drawing that produced 52 third-prize winners nationwide during the jackpot run. One additional third-prize ticket was sold on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and another was sold in Medina in western New York.
A single ticket sold in Illinois won the $1.04 billion jackpot. More than 3 million tickets won cash prizes in Wednesday night’s drawing.
Based on reporting by Mary Frost for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
