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Tips for protecting your lottery win
Michigan Lottery says annual complaints impact only a tiny percentage of the agency’s 10,500 retailers, but all are taken seriously and investigated.
Mandi Wright, Wochit
The Powerball winning numbers are in for the Monday, May 18 drawing with a jackpot of $100 million ($43.9 million cash value).
The largest winning Powerball jackpot ticket sold in Michigan was worth $842.4 million and sold in January 2024 at Food Castle in Grand Blanc.
The winning numbers from the Monday, May 18 drawing are 4, 13, 34, 61 and 65. The Powerball was 12. The Power Play multiplier was 2x.
No one won the Powerball jackpot. A ticket sold in Virginia matched all five white balls and had the Power Play option to win $2 million.
The next Powerball drawing is Wednesday, May 20. Drawings are held at 10:59 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
In Michigan, in-store and online ticket sales are available until 9:45 p.m. on the night of the draw.
Powerball costs $2 to play. For an additional $1 per play, the Power Play feature can multiply non-jackpot prizes by two, three, four, five or 10 times.
For an additional $1 per play, the Power Play feature can multiply non-jackpot prizes by two, three, four, five or 10 times.
The multiplier is randomly selected before each drawing.
The 10X multiplier is only in play when the advertised jackpot annuity is $150 million or less.
The complete guide to winnings is:
The overall odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
Powerball drawings are broadcast live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. from the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee. Drawings are also lived streamed on Powerball.com. The winning numbers are posted to the Powerball and Michigan Lottery websites.
In-store Powerball purchasers can select the Double Play option to use their numbers in a second drawing immediately following the regular Powerball drawing for a chance to win additional prizes up to $10,000,000. Players can add the Double Play feature to their Powerball ticket for an additional $1 per play.
The Powerball Double Play drawing takes place between 11:30 and 11:40 p.m.
The Power Play multiplier does not apply to prizes won in the Double Play drawing.