A Missouri Lottery player who played his own set of numbers for years couldn’t believe his eyes when he won a $50,000 Powerball prize in the Feb. 27 drawing.
“I had to check the ticket five different times before I realized that I actually won,” the winner said of the ticket he purchased at Kum & Go, 195 Gage Drive, in Hollister.
He went on to say that the first person he told about the win was his sister.
“She actually got goosebumps,” he shared.
Powerball is a $2 per play multi-state Draw Game with drawings held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 9:59 p.m. The winning numbers on Feb. 27 were 16, 28, 49, 51 and 55, with a Powerball number of 23. All current and past winning numbers can be found at MOLottery.com.
In FY22, players in Taney County won more than $11.8 million in Missouri Lottery prizes, retailers received more than $1.1 million in commissions and bonuses, and more than $1.2 million in Lottery proceeds went to education programs in the county.
