Texas Lottery Confirms $50,000 Powerball Win Monday Night

Texas Lottery players if you plunked down a few bucks on a Powerball ticket for Monday, April 22, 2204 drawing then you have 50,000 very good reasons to retrieve that ticket and check your numbers. Texas Lottery officials have confirmed through our sources that a ticket sold in Texas for Monday's Powerball game was a $50,000 winner.

That ticket was one of several tickets that returned a lot more to players than their initial investment of $2 bucks or $3 bucks if they opted for the Power Play on the multi-state lottery game. Let's check the numbers and see how you did.

Here is the drawing from Monday night's Powerball game.

The ping pong balls finally settled after being rousted from their hopper the numbers that were left were:

12   16   33   39   52   Powerball 01  Power Play x2

Once you've perused those numbers you will need to verify them at the Official Powerball website or the Official Texas Lottery website. Both sites have places where you can enter ticket numbers and learn how much you did or did not win in the game.

Hopefully, you were one of the big winners in Texas last night. While a $50,000 prize is nice it wasn't Powerball's biggest win of the evening. That honor belongs to a New York sold ticket that Matched 5 for one million dollars. No ticket sold for last night's drawing matched the numbers needed to claim the game's top prize of an estimated $116,000,000.

As far as other big wins in Texas there were 23 tickets sold for last night's game that earned a prize of $200. There were also an additional 54 tickets sold for the Monday drawing that earned a prize of $100. The Texas Lottery page suggests that Monday's Powerball produced 25,485 total winners in the state. So do check your numbers.

The Powerball jackpot will now climb to an estimated $129 million on Wednesday. Meanwhile, tonight's Mega Millions drawing, the other multi-state lottery game, boasts a jackpot of $202 million. That is an estimation as well.

Remember most lottery games do not offer a profitable return on your investment so be prepared to lose your money. If you feel as if you have a problem with gambling help is available and it is free to get. Just call 1-800-GAMBLER. The call and the referrals are free.