The Rhode Island Lottery is celebrating its 50th birthday with two $50,000 wins. A Powerball ticket and an Instant Ticket won $50,000, and the Powerball ticket remains unclaimed from last night’s drawing.
A woman from Newport and a man from Middletown cashed in their $50,000 “Green Cash Blast” Instant Ticket purchased from 7-Eleven, 775 Cranston St., Providence.
After last night’s Powerball drawing, someone else also woke up $50,000 richer. Check your Powerball tickets, especially if you purchased yours from Game of Smokes, 603 Washington St., Coventry, for last night’s drawing.
The winning ticket matched four numbers and the Powerball® number to win $50,000. If the winner had purchased the Power Play® feature, the prize would have been multiplied by 2, the Power Play® number for that draw, to win $100,000.
The Powerball jackpot is also expected to be $100 million tomorrow.
Fifty years ago today, on May 21, 1974, the Lottery launched its first game, “The Lot.” Tickets were $0.50.
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) assisted a What’sUpNewp journalist with the reporting included in this story.