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What time is the PA Lottery? ›

Drawings are broadcast between 11:00 p.m. and 11:25 p.m. Televised game drawings are carried by the stations listed below. Remember, if a station must pre-empt a drawing for network programming, our 6:59 p.m. nightly drawings may be streamed online. *You will be leaving the Pennsylvania Lottery Web site.

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Pittsburgh: WPXI Ch. 11 Lottery Results at 11:11 p.m. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton: WNEP Ch. 16 Lottery Results at 11:00 p.m.

04/24 Page 2 Claim prizes promptly so that they don't expire! Your winnings are subject to the Commonwealth's 3.07 percent state personal income tax and federal taxes, 24 percent (taxes subject to change). The Pennsylvania Lottery automatically withholds taxes for winnings more than $5,000.

You can also visit the Lottery VIP Players Club to sign up for emails and text messages to receive winning Lottery number alerts for Powerball and other PA Lottery games. Note: Sales end at 9:59 p.m. on drawing nights.

Be sure to purchase your ticket(s) before 7:00 p.m. for tonight's draw. Tickets purchased after 7:00 p.m. will be eligible for the following draw. Powerball draws are at 7:59 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.

The Pennsylvania Lottery automatically withholds taxes for winnings more than $5,000. Winners will receive a W-2G tax form in the mail for all prizes won that are over $600, which will show if any taxes are withheld. Winners may use the form when filing taxes.

October 26, 2022 – The Pennsylvania Lottery awarded a record online prize worth $1,616,808.72 on the online game PA Big Winner Spectacular, to a player from Centre County.

Claiming your prize in Pennsylvania

If you're fortunate enough to score a winning ticket in Pennsylvania, you'll need to head to the Pennsylvania Lottery headquarters located in Middletown, south of Harrisburg, to claim your prize in person. Once there, lottery officials will validate your ticket.

Play Mega Millions for just $2. Purchase tickets at your local Lottery retailer or at your nearest Lottery vending machine. Drawings are every Tuesday and Friday at 8:00 p.m. Find out where to play here.

What time is PA Lottery Pick 2 drawing? ›

PICK 2 day drawing can be viewed on the PA Lottery website daily after 1:35 p.m. PICK 2 evening is drawn during the nightly drawing show at 6:59 p.m. Watch for the evening drawing on TV, streaming online or check PA Lottery drawing results on your local TV station: Erie: WJET Ch. 24.

Players may pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers - five different numbers from 1 to 70 (the white balls) and one number from 1 to 25 (the gold Mega Ball) - or select Easy Pick/Quick Pick. You win the jackpot by matching all six winning numbers in a drawing.

How About Your Retirement Benefits? Just like SSDI, social security retirement benefits are earned benefits. This means winning the lottery will have no impact on your retirement benefits. But it may impact your taxes on your benefits since lottery winnings have to be reported to the IRS.

Residents. Pennsylvania taxes resident individuals, estates or trusts on all gambling and lottery winnings from every source, except noncash winnings of the Pennsylvania Lottery, regardless of where the wager is placed.

So, you may ask, "How much do I get if I win the Powerball?" It is about 52 percent of the total jackpot amount (before taxes). For example, if the Powerball jackpot is at $100 million, the cash value would be around $52 million.

PICK 3 day drawing can be viewed on the PA Lottery website daily after 1:35 p.m. PICK 3 evening is drawn during the nightly drawing show at 6:59 p.m. Watch for the evening drawing on TV, streaming online or check PA Lottery drawing results on your local TV station: Erie: WJET Ch. 24.

In Pennsylvania the cutoff to buy tickets is 9:59 p.m. on drawing days.

Mega Millions drawings are held two times a week, every Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. ET.

Complete game information and prize claiming instructions are available at all Lottery retailers. There was no jackpot winner in California for this draw. But there are 125,022 winning tickets! Get your ticket for the next draw.