A single winning ticket was sold in California for the historic $1 billion Powerball jackpot, lottery officials announced.
A winning ticket for July 18’s $1.08 billion Powerball drawing was sold at a Los Angeles convenience store, making it the third-largest Powerball jackpot ever and the sixth-largest American lottery jackpot in history.
The prize has a lump sum cash payment of $558.1 million.
In case you haven’t had a chance to check your own ticket, the winning numbers were 7, 10, 11, 13 and 24. The Powerball was also 24.
The winner has not yet come forward to claim the prize, which is the largest Powerball jackpot in history. The previous record was $768.4 million, which was won in January 2016.
The Powerball had not been won since April, with 39 drawings taking place before this week’s victory. Three other Powerball jackpots were hit earlier this year: a $754.6 million grand prize won in Washington in January, a $162.6 million jackpot in Virginia in March and a $252.6 million payday in Ohio in April.
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. The winner has the option of taking the prize in a lump sum payment of $632.6 million or 30 annual payments of $34.4 million.
The winning ticket was the only ticket to match all six numbers. There were also 2 tickets that matched five numbers and the Powerball, which are each worth $1 million.
The Powerball jackpot has been rolling over for several weeks, and the odds of winning have been increasing. The next drawing will be held on Wednesday night, and the jackpot is expected to be even larger.
California was also the site of the largest Powerball jackpot ever, when someone won the $2.04 billion jackpot last November, which set the world record for biggest jackpot ever.
The latest drawing on July 18 yielded no winner, as the prize has ballooned to roughly $720 million. The next drawing for that game will be July 21. It’s the first time both Mega Million and Powerball had each passed the $500 million mark at the same time in two years.
Source: Today.com
