A Powerball ticket worth $231 million was sold at the Acme store at 460 E. Main Street in Middletown, Delaware, after matching all five numbers and the Powerball in Monday night’s drawing. The winning numbers were 7, 24, 37, 42 and 57, and the Powerball number was 5.
The jackpot has a cash value of $105 million, and the winner is being urged to sign the back of the ticket and keep it in a safe place until the claims process begins. It is the first time someone has hit the Powerball jackpot in Delaware since 2016, a stretch that ends with a single ticket and a set of numbers that beat odds of 1 in 292.2 million.
That kind of win is the rarest outcome in a game played across 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The overall chance of winning any prize is 1 in 24.9, but the one that matters in Middletown was the one that matched every number on Monday night.
The state lottery identified the ticket as Delaware’s latest Powerball jackpot winner, and the retailer that sold it now sits at the center of the state’s biggest lottery moment in years. What happens next depends on the holder coming forward with the signed ticket and beginning the claims process, but the prize itself is already locked in.
