3 $1M Powerball Tickets Sold in Georgia: Check Your Tickets, Again!

Check your tickets, Georgia Powerball players! Three tickets matched five numbers in Saturday night's drawing, making each worth $1 million.

One ticket matched the winning Powerball numbers, worth an estimated $478 million, according to lottery officials. The winning ticket was sold in New Hampshire.

The winning numbers for Saturday, July 30, 2016 are:

• 11-17-21-23-32 and the Powerball is 5.

Saturday's prize stacks up at No. 8 in the jackpot rankings, and the fifth largest Powerball drawing.

That's still far from January's record Powerball jackpot, which was worth nearly $1.6 billion. But it's enough to make Americans run to the nearest convenience store with dreams of cash.

The billion-dollar-plus prize won in the Jan. 13 drawing was the largest lotto jackpot awarded in U.S. history and was split by three winners.

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When a highly unlikely windfall comes your way, there are tons of investment options: real estate, cars, business. A really bad investment? Meth. A Georgia man who won $3 million with a scratch-off lottery ticket pleaded guilty last week to using his winnings to buy and sell meth.

The Powerball game is played by matching all five white balls in any order and the red Powerball number.
Powerball drawings are held every Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. Eastern time. Each ticket costs $2.
Find out where you can buy your Powerball tickets.

The odds of picking the correct Powerball grand prize numbers are one in 292,201,338.

Includes reporting by Deb Belt