{"id":13645,"date":"2026-03-23T13:16:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thelotter.com\/?p=13645"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:28:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:28:25","slug":"french-player-wins-powerball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelotter.com\/blog\/winners\/french-player-wins-powerball\/","title":{"rendered":"US$50,000 Powerball Win? Maybe My Parents Played in My Account!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-us-50-000-powerball-win-maybe-my-parents-played-in-my-account\">US$50,000 Powerball Win? Maybe My Parents Played in My Account!<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"yoast-breadcrumbs\"><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelotter.com\/\">TheLotter<\/a><\/span> \u00bb <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelotter.com\/blog\/winners\/\">Lottery Winners<\/a><\/span> \u00bb <span class=\"breadcrumb_last\" aria-current=\"page\">US$50,000 Powerball Win? Maybe My Parents Played in My Account!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-a0cb09e40e8b56819769537b5ff6cbc1 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>There is nothing more satisfying to us at TheLotter than informing one of our players that they won a big lottery prize. We had a chance to experience this once again when we called\u00a0Florian P. from southwest France and told him that he won\u00a0<strong>US$50,000<\/strong>\u00a0while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelotter.com\/lottery-tickets\/usa-powerball\/\">playing Powerball online<\/a>. Not only was he surprised to learn that he had won, but we were surprised when he told us who had actually purchased the winning ticket!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florian has only been playing at TheLotter for one month, but he has already scored a big win. How did Florian discover our site? What numbers did he play? Read his answers below and you\u2019ll quickly see what can happen when you play the lottery online at TheLotter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Florian&#039;s $50,000 Powerball prize is a surprise!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9whe24mEKko?start=12&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;I\u2019m on Cloud Nine&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we called to congratulate Florian for having won the&nbsp;<strong>US$50,000<\/strong>&nbsp;third division prize in Powerball, he didn\u2019t know what we were talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Did you play the draw on 27 October, 2018?&#8221; we asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Er, no,&#8221; the startled customer replied. &#8220;Maybe it was my parents. We often have accounts in common.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fact that he (and his parents) had won&nbsp;<strong>US$50,000<\/strong>, quickly sunk in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;That&#8217;s very good news. It&#8217;s hard to believe!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Powerball numbers drawn were:<\/strong> 8121319274<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>And the numbers on Florian&#8217;s ticket were:<\/strong> 481213274<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the 4 on Florian&#8217;s ticket had been a 19, he would have won the Powerball jackpot! Still, winning&nbsp;<strong>US$50,000<\/strong>&nbsp;is quite an achievement!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;re on cloud nine,&#8221; Florian said. &#8220;I&#8217;m on cloud nine!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-layout-flex uagb-block-258e1cfa alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-756e94cb wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelotter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/You-Have-to-Persevere.webp ,https:\/\/www.thelotter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/You-Have-to-Persevere.webp 780w, https:\/\/www.thelotter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/You-Have-to-Persevere.webp 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelotter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/You-Have-to-Persevere.webp\" alt=\"You Have to Persevere\" class=\"uag-image-13647\" width=\"506\" height=\"360\" title=\"You Have to Persevere\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-a42dba4c\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You Have to Persevere<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We asked Florian&nbsp;to tell us more about himself, and about his parents who apparently played at TheLotter without his knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m the manager of a personal care service company here in France and my parents are in West Africa. It was my father who asked me to play when the Mega Millions jackpot was worth more than a billion euros. We did not win. And then my father told me, &#8216;You have to persevere. Replay the same numbers.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;How did you choose those numbers?&#8221; we asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My parents have been playing them for 20 years. They are numbers that are important to them. They are numbers that speak to us &#8211; birth dates, years, and so on. These numbers actually speak to us a lot more now!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;What brought you to TheLotter?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A friend of mine, my best friend who lives in New York. I asked him how to play the lottery from abroad and he told me about your site, saying it was the simplest.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Well, you can thank him now.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Yes, I will thank him. I will call him right away!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to Florian&nbsp;and to his parents, for winning such an amazing Powerball prize. Their perseverance of playing the same numbers, draw after draw, certainly paid off!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-215ce80b3bd16a9a9426472ed3719833 wp-block-paragraph\">Do you want to be the next big Powerball winner?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelotter.com\/lottery-tickets\/usa-powerball\/\">Purchase your Powerball tickets today<\/a>&nbsp;in time for the next draw!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-related-articles\">Related Articles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query posts-grid is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-query-is-layout-constrained\"><ul class=\"columns-3 wp-block-post-template is-layout-grid wp-container-core-post-template-is-layout-d5e44b10 wp-block-post-template-is-layout-grid\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-13645 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-winners\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group post-card has-ast-global-color-5-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-98e19b98 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-radius:12px;padding-top:12px;padding-right:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-left:12px\"><figure style=\"margin-bottom:1.5rem;aspect-ratio:3\/2\" class=\"post-card-image wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelotter.com\/blog\/winners\/french-player-wins-powerball\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1012\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelotter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/US50000-Powerball-Win-Maybe-My-Parents-Played-in-My-Account.webp?wsr\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"US$50,000 Powerball Win? 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