A single successful ticket was bought for Powerball’s Christmas Eve jackpot of $1.817 billion — the second-largest U.S. lottery prize ever. The winner, who has not but been publicly recognized, purchased the fortunate ticket at a fuel station exterior Little Rock, Arkansas.
The successful numbers for Wednesday evening’s drawing had been 4, 25, 31, 52, 59, with a Powerball of 19.
The grand prize had a lump sum money worth of $834.9 million. A rush of ticket gross sales pushed the ultimate jackpot complete even greater than beforehand anticipated.
The successful ticket was bought at a Murphy USA within the city of Cabot, lottery officers in Arkansas stated Thursday. Nobody answered the cellphone Thursday on the location, which was closed for Christmas, The Related Press reported.
The Powerball jackpot had been received as soon as earlier than on Christmas Eve, in 2011, and 4 occasions on Christmas Day, the sport says. Powerball began in 1992.
The final time a Powerball jackpot was hit was on Sept. 6 in Missouri and Texas, when two tickets break up a $1.787 billion high prize. The almost four-month stretch between jackpots — 47 drawings — was a report for essentially the most in a Powerball jackpot cycle, the sport says.
That is solely the second time within the sport’s historical past with back-to-back successful jackpots topping $1 billion, Powerball stated.
The $1.817 billion prize is second solely to the $2.04 billion jackpot received in 2022 by a single ticket bought in Altadena, California, which was the largest in each Powerball and lottery historical past.
To win the jackpot, a ticket should match all 5 white balls and the pink Powerball pulled throughout a drawing. Single winners of the highest prize can select between a lump sum cost or a payout through an annuity of 1 instant cost adopted by 29 annual funds that improve by 5% every time. Each the lump sum and annuity complete are earlier than taxes.
Different ticket-holders can even take house a tidy sum. Powerball says eight tickets in Tuesday evening’s drawing matched all 5 white balls for a “Match 5” prize of $1 million (the prize complete varies in California); 114 tickets received $50,000 prizes and 31 tickets received $100,000.
The odds of successful the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, in accordance with sport officers. Lottery jackpots have exploded in dimension during the last decade, whereas the percentages of successful have gotten slimmer.
Tickets price $2 every and are bought in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings happen each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 11 p.m. ET.
