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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2021

BROWARD COUNTY MAN HAS TWO MILLION
REASONS TO BE THANKFUL AFTER PLAYING POWERBALL®

TALLAHASSEE - The Florida Lottery (Lottery) announces that Ian Murray, 51, claimed a $2 million prize from the POWERBALL® drawing held on November 6, 2021, at the Lottery's West Palm Beach District Office. The winning ticket matched all five of the white ball numbers but did not match the Powerball number.

Murray purchased his winning Quick Pick ticket from Publix, located at 12500 West Sunrise Boulevard in Sunrise. The retailer will receive a $5,000 bonus commission for selling the winning POWERBALL with Power Play® ticket.

The next POWERBALL drawing will be held Wednesday at 10:59 p.m., ET, with an estimated $224 million jackpot. Tickets must be purchased by 10:00 p.m., ET to be eligible for this drawing. POWERBALL drawings are broadcast live, in high definition, from the Lottery's state of the art draw studio in Tallahassee. Drawings are also available for viewing on the Lottery's website and official YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/floridalottery. Winning numbers are available on the Lottery's website, free mobile app, at retailers statewide, and by phone at (850) 921-PLAY.

ABOUT POWERBALL IN FLORIDA

Since joining POWERBALL in 2009, the game has generated more than $2.3 billion in contributions to education statewide. Florida is among the top-selling POWERBALL states in the country, with more than 105 million winning tickets totaling more than $3.3 billion in prizes, including 16 jackpot winners. Florida was also one of the three states nationally to have a winner share in the world record-setting $1.586 billion POWERBALL jackpot in January 2016.

ABOUT THE FLORIDA LOTTERY

The Florida Lottery is responsible for contributing more than $40 billion to enhance education and sending more than 880,000 students to college through the Bright Futures Scholarship Program. The Florida Lottery reinvests 99 percent of its revenue back into Florida's economy through prize payouts, commissions to more than 13,000 Lottery retailers and transfers to education. Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid more than $79.1 billion in prizes and made more than 3,100 people millionaires. For more information, please visit www.flalottery.com.

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