AUBURN, Wash. (AP) — A single profitable ticket for a $754.6 million Powerball jackpot was bought at a division retailer in a Seattle suburb, Washington state lottery officers stated Tuesday.
The profitable numbers drawn Monday evening have been 5, 11, 22, 23, 69 and the Powerball 7.
The profitable ticket was purchased Sunday at a Fred Meyer retailer in Auburn, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Seattle, lottery officers stated. The retailer will obtain a $50,000 bonus.
The winner has not but come ahead.
It’s the second time a Powerball jackpot ticket was bought in Washington state, and each tickets have been bought in Auburn. The first was a $90 million jackpot in 2014.
Lottery officers stated one other $1 million prize from a ticket purchased in Airway Heights, close to Spokane, in November stays unclaimed. Lottery winners have 180 days to say their prizes.
Powerball officers stated in an announcement early Tuesday {that a} single ticket matched all six numbers and that ticket gross sales pushed the jackpot greater than an earlier $747 million estimate.
The full jackpot is for a winner choosing an annuity distributed in a single speedy however partial payout adopted by extra funds over 29 years that improve by 5% yearly. The winner can also go for a one-time money cost of $407.2 million.
Both prizes obtainable are the quantities earlier than taxes, Powerball stated.
The estimated jackpot for the following drawing scheduled for Wednesday is $20 million, in keeping with the lottery’s web site.
Monday evening’s win was the primary Powerball jackpot win since Nov. 19. That winless streak allowed the prize to develop bigger and bigger till it grew to become the ninth-largest in U.S. historical past.
Higher rates of interest have allowed annuity funds to extend in contrast with earlier jackpots, when charges have been decrease. Most winners desire the speedy money prize.
The recreation’s abysmal odds of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to construct huge prizes that draw extra gamers. That technique definitely has labored not too long ago: Someone in Maine received a $1.35 billion Mega Millions prize in January and a California participant hit a file $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot final November. No one has claimed both of these prizes.
Powerball is performed in 45 states, in addition to Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
___
The story was up to date to right that the following Powerball drawing is scheduled for Wednesday, not Thursday.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”
