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Has Does PA Rank as a Lucky Lottery State?

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By Lou Monaco
June 10, 2025 03:13pm
Fact Checked by Jim Tomlin

All you need is two dollars and a dream.

Every day, millions of Americans use some extra cash and hope their numbers hit for that dream of a lifetime.

With National Lottery Day coming on July 17, we decided to take a break from covering sports betting and PA online casinos to look at the states that have had the most luck winning the Powerball.

PennStakes.com – your source for PA betting sites - utilized Powerball.com’s Media Center to gather the 10 states that have the most residents to win the lottery. 
 
Just $2 per play, Powerball is contested when you select five numbers between 1 and 69, then select one number between 1 and 26 for the red Powerball. You may choose your own numbers on a play slip or let the lottery terminal randomly pick your numbers for you.

Here is what we found out:

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Luckiest Lottery States

RankStateAmount of Powerball Winners
1Indiana39
2Missouri31
3Minnesota22
T-4Wisconsin19
T-4Pennsylvania19
6Kentucky18
7Louisiana17
8Florida16
9Arizona14
T-10Kansas12
T-10New York12
T-10California12

 

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PA Players Fairly Lucky

The Keystone State and Wisconsin tied for fourth on the list with 19 total Powerball winners.

The top three: Indiana (39), Missouri (31) and Minnesota.

It's been more than five years since the last Powerball winner came out of the state. In March 2018, a whopping $456.7 million jackpot-winning ticket was sold in Lancaster County.

Powerball drawing days are Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. ET, with the sale of tickets for each drawing ending an hour earlier at 9:59 p.m.

According to Pennsylvania Lottery’s website, a bonus of $100,000 is rewarded for selling a winning ticket worth $10,000,001 or more. The bonus is paid to the retailer that sells the winning ticket, not the retailer that redeems the winning ticket.

For the month of May, the Pennsylvania Lottery Bureau reported more than $13.77 million dollars for the month, with year-to-date sales exceeding $296.37 million.

For stories of gambling interest and the best PA online casino bonuses, keep a close eye on PennStakes.com.

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Lou Monaco
Lou Monaco

Lou Monaco returns as a gambling writer after a brief hiatus and 3 1/2-year stint with Gambling.com. He also is a contributor to Covers.com and to the newly launched Comped.com. Currently he is also the nighttime high school sports desk manager and part-time writer for NJ Advanced Media (NJ.com) in Iselin, NJ. Lou has over 30+ years of sports experience with previous stints at ESPN SportsTicker, Daily Racing Form and Oddschecker.

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