Winning Powerball ticket worth $1 million sold in Northwest Indiana

A whopping 1,459 Hoosier Lottery players won a collective $205,456 in prizes Christmas Eve when the evening Daily 3 drawing came up 1-2-3.

The Hoosier Lottery sold $565.8 million in tickets between July and October. That was $45 million (8.7%) greater than the same four-month period last year.

Could you use an extra half-billion dollars heading into the holidays?

Lottery players in Indiana, and across the country, now have a third opportunity each week to become a multimillionaire by hitting the Powerball jackpot.

The Hoosier Lottery sold a record $1.74 billion in lottery tickets during the 2021 state budget year, smashing the prior annual sales record by more than 26%.

Stilianos Kyriakakis told the Hoosier Lottery he plans to share his $1 million Powerball prize with his two children.

Data released Tuesday by the State Lottery Commission show sales of scratch-off tickets increased 4% to $886 million during the eight-month period between July 2021 and February 2022.

The intersection of 109th Avenue and Randolph Street might just be the luckiest crossroads in Northwest Indiana.

Since April 22, 1992, the Powerball jackpot has been hit 393 times for a total of $25 billion in prizes, and another $23 billion has been paid out on some 1.7 billion non-jackpot winning tickets.

Between July 1, 2021, and April 30, 2022, the Hoosier Lottery sold $1.43 billion in tickets, down $15.8 million, or 1.1%, compared to the same 10-month period one year earlier.

A winning Powerball lottery ticket sold for the Feb. 12 drawing in Northwest Indiana and worth $50,000 will expire if the prize is not claimed by Aug. 11.

A winning ticket sold for the Feb. 12 Powerball drawing at Speedway, 98 W. 73rd St., Merrillville, was not turned in for payment at Indianapolis lottery headquarters prior to the 180-day deadline.

The winning ticket sold for the April 18 Powerball drawing at the Pilot Flying J Travel Center, 1401 Ripley St., Lake Station, was not turned in for payment prior to the 180-day deadline.

"Even though the $2 billion was not won here in Indiana, it does have a great impact on our players and our retailers," said Chuck Taylor of the Hoosier Lottery.