Connecticut woman wins $500,000 Powerball Double Play prize. It’s her ‘first time playing CT Lottery’

A Connecticut woman is the first in the state to win a $500,000 Powerball Double Play prize, according to the Connecticut Lottery Corporation.

“This is my first time playing CT Lottery,” said the Meriden woman. “I’m still in disbelief.”

“I’ve never played Powerball, so the clerk was helping me buy the ticket,” she recalled. “He asked if I wanted an add-on, and I asked what he recommended. He said Double Play, so I bought the add-on.”

According to the Connecticut Lottery Corporation, “She matched all five black balls in the Double Play drawing: 47, 17, 19, 53, and 61, winning $500,000. Had she also matched the Double Play Powerball number, she would have won a $10 million top cash prize.”

“The winning ticket was purchased at H&H Mart on Broad St. in Meriden,” according to the Connecticut Lottery Corporation.

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“The winner says she plans to use the money to pay off her mortgage and celebrate her daughter’s upcoming wedding,” the Connecticut Lottery Corporation went on to say.

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