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A cashier enters lottery tickets at a fuel station as the large Powerball and Mega Tens of millions jackpots develop collectively by greater than $1 billion, in Trona, California, United States on July 11, 2023.
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A Powerball participant in Oregon received a jackpot price greater than $1.3 billion on Sunday, ending a successful streak that had lasted greater than three months.
The one ticket matched all six numbers drawn to win the $1.326 billion jackpot, Powerball stated in an announcement.
The jackpot has a money worth of $621 million if the winner chooses to take a lump sum as a substitute of an annuity paid out over 30 years, with a right away payout adopted by 29 annual installments. The prize is topic to federal taxes, whereas many states additionally tax lottery winnings.
The successful numbers drawn early Sunday morning had been: 22, 27, 44, 52, 69 and the purple Powerball 9.
Till the newest drawing, nobody had received Powerball’s high prize since New Yr’s Day, marking 41 consecutive drawings with no jackpot winner, tying a streak twice beforehand in 2022 and 2021.
The $1.326 billion prize ranks eighth in U.S. lottery historical past. Because the prizes get greater, the attracts entice extra ticket gross sales and the jackpots then turn into more durable to win. The sport’s lengthy odds for the weekend draw had been 1 in 292.2 million.
Saturday evening’s scheduled drawing was postponed and happened on the Florida Lottery studio simply earlier than 2:30 a.m. Sunday in order that one of many organizers may full the required procedures earlier than the scheduled time of 10:59 p.m., Powerball stated in an announcement.
“The Powerball guidelines require that every ticket offered nationwide be checked and verified on two completely different laptop methods earlier than the successful numbers are drawn,” the assertion stated. “That is being accomplished to make sure that each ticket offered for the Powerball drawing is taken into consideration and has an equal probability of successful. Tonight we’ve one jurisdiction that may require further time to finish that pre-draw course of.”
Powerball is performed in 45 states plus Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
Oregon Powerball participant wins $1.3 billion jackpot, ending greater than three months with no high prize
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