A single ticket sold at a small store in downtown Los Angeles has won the $1 billion Powerball jackpot, one of the biggest jackpots in lottery history, according to the California Lottery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Multi-State Lottery Association said one ticket in California matched all six numbers to win the grand prize, $1.08 billion. Nearly 40 other tickets across the country came close to winning but fell short with the wrong Powerball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The winning numbers were 07, 13, 10, 24, 11 and Powerball 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The California Lottery said the winning ticket was sold at Las Palmitas Mini Market, a small grocery store at 1205 Wall Street in downtown Los Angeles. The winner’s name will be publicly released under California law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once the winner claims the prize, they’ll get to choose between the $1.08 billion jackpot, which is paid out in 30 installments over a period of 29 years, or the $558.1 million cash value which is paid out immediately. Both prizes are subject to federal and local taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
39 tickets sold across 18 U.S. states (CA, CT, FL, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, MO, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, TX, WI and WV) matched 5 out of 6 numbers, earning them $1 million each. Three of them paid $1 extra for Power Play, doubling their prize to $2 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The billion-dollar prize comes at a time when another jackpot \u2013 Mega Millions \u2013 is also unusually high: $720 million for Friday’s drawing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prior to Wednesday night, the Powerball jackpot was last hit on April 19, when someone in Ohio won $252.6 million. Since then, there were 38 Powerball drawings in a row in which no one won the grand prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Powerball tickets are sold in 45 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. They cost $2. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At $1.08 billion, Wednesday\u2019s jackpot was the seventh-largest in lottery history, and the third-largest Powerball jackpot, only behind the world record $2.04 billion prize last year and the $1.586 billion jackpot in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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