$9.4 Million Winning Lottery Ticket Sold In CT: Check Your Tickets

CONNECTICUT — Someone won $9.4 million after purchasing the winning ticket for Friday's Lotto! game, according to the Connecticut Lottery.

One ticket correctly picked all six numbers and earned the $9.4 million grand prize. The annuity is paid in 21 equal payments, or you can choose the ticket cash value of $6,483,618, according to the Connecticut Lottery.

Other winners include: 9 people won $2,244, 478 people won $49, and 7,952 won $2. All told, 8,440 winning tickets were sold in Connecticut for Friday's Lotto! game, according to the CT Lottery.

Here are the winning numbers for the Lotto! drawing on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023:

• 6
• 7
• 15
• 22
• 28
• 42

The Connecticut Lotto! drawings occur Tuesdays and Fridays at 10:38 p.m. and wagering closes at 10:20 p.m., according to the CT Lottery. Tickets cost $1. The jackpot starts at $1 million and keeps growing until someone wins. The jackpot is won by matching all 6 numbers drawn from 1 to 44.

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Powerball jackpot is nearly $1 billion for Saturday, Sept. 30

Saturday’s jackpot has ballooned to $960 million, with a cash value of $441.4 million, according to the Connecticut Lottery. If anyone wins — the odds are one in 292.2 million, it will be the fourth-largest Powerball jackpot in history.

Top 10 Powerball Jackpots

1. $2.04B on Nov. 7, 2022
2. $1.58B on Jan. 13, 2016
3. $1.08B on July 19
4. $960M on Sept. 30 (anticipated)
5. $768M on March 27, 2019
6. $758M on Aug. 23, 2017
7. $754M on Feb. 6, 2023
8. $731M on Jan. 20, 2021
9. $699M on Oct. 4, 2021
10. $687M on Oct. 27, 2018

Powerball drawings are held on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays at 10:59 p.m.

Winners may choose to receive their prize as an annuity paid in 30 graduated payments over 29 years, or they may take the cash payout. Nearly all winners choose cash.

A Powerball ticket costs $2. For an additional $1 per ticket, players can multiply non-jackpot prizes by up to 10 times with the Power Play feature. One caveat: The 10X multiplier is only available when the advertised jackpot annuity is $150 million or less.

To win the jackpot, a player must match all white balls in any order and the red Powerball number. Lottery officials say chances are higher when players don’t choose their own numbers. About 75 percent of winning tickets over the years were picked by a computer.

Tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Patch editors Deb Belt and Tony Schinella contributed to this story.