(Baton Rouge, LA) The Louisiana Lottery and the Powerball game have confirmed that a single ticket was a jackpot winner on Saturday night. The top prize was a jackpot estimated to be $167.3 million for the annuity payout. Or, should the holder of the lucky ticket prefer, they might opt for the one-time lump sum payout of $77.3 million.
If you follow the lottery in Louisiana, you’ve probably heard rumors that the best places to buy a winning lottery ticket are along I-10. The cities of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles, and all the other smaller communities that exist 50 miles on either side of the east-west thoroughfare across the state do seem to produce the most lottery jackpot wins across the state.
That fact is true for scratch-off games from the Louisiana Lottery as well as the litany of draw games the lottery offers in our state. On Saturdays in Louisiana, there are drawings for Powerball, Lotto, and Easy 5. The big focus of this past Saturday was the Powerball drawing, so let’s take a look at what happened…