Wednesday’s Christmas Eve Powerball drawing ended a record-breaking jackpot run and produced more than 136,000 winning tickets in Maryland, including a $100,000 winner in Annapolis, a $50,000 winning ticket sold at a 7-Eleven on Frederick Road in Germantown, and a $50,000 sold at the Safeway in Wheaton. Full details below courtesy MD Lottery:
“A Powerball jackpot run that lasted more than three months came to an end on Christmas Eve as a ticket sold in Arkansas won the second-largest prize in the game’s history.
The jackpot had been advertised at an estimated annuity value of $1.7 billion with an estimated cash option of $781.3 million. But final ticket sales prior to Wednesday night’s drawing pushed the annuity value to $1.817 billion with a cash option of $834.9 million. Powerball’s largest jackpot of $2.040 billion was won in November 2022 on a ticket sold in California…