A single winner for the $ 758 million Powerball lottery |
Posted: November 10, 2017 |
The prize was growing little by little, week by week, until reaching 757.8 million dollars (about 643 million euros). Millions of people kept their ticket to the Powerball lottery waiting for the powerball results on Wednesday. The combination was coming number to number: 6, 7, 16, 23 and 26 ... and the Powerball winning numbers ... the 4. That is just the combination that a citizen of Massachusetts had filled. The lottery company initially said that the winner had placed his bet at the Handy Variety store in the town of Watertown, very close to Boston. But then he corrected: the ticket was stamped at the Chicopee Pride Station and Store, in the same state but 85 miles away. The name of the lucky winner - the chances of you playing are between 292 million, exemplifies CNN - is not known at the moment. What is known is that this is the highest award received by a single person in the entire history of the United States lottery, according to Cristian Teja, spokesperson for the Massachusetts lottery agency. The ticket has been filled in what is called in the United States a convenience store, that type of gas station supermarkets, typical of the rural areas of the United States, in which the same thing you drink coffee, make the purchase or acquire tobacco. The prize was not the biggest one in the history of Powerball: the largest known jackpot was the one that was distributed in January of last year. They were 1,600 million dollars (1,356 million euros today), but they had to share three players from Tennessee, California and Florida. This lottery is played in 44 states, plus Washington DC, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The bets cost $ 2. The treasury will retain the lucky winner 25% of the total amount of the prize. The graceful can choose to charge the prize in comfortable terms for years or at one time. The second option substantially reduces the prize, since the top marginal rate in the United States is almost 40%. So far, the largest boat a person had taken was 447 million dollars. And not so long ago: it was last June 11. Powerball: Three lucky ones will share US $ 1,600 million "Winning the Powerball is a life-changing experience, congratulations to the owners and to the merchant who sold it," said New Jersey Lottery Executive Director Carole Hedinger in a statement. "We hope that the winner or winners will take their time before claiming the prize and consult with the appropriate professionals to help them manage this new field, and we will be anxiously awaiting the phone call." Hedinger added that it is the seventh highest prize in the history of Powerball. The jackpot had climbed on Saturday to $ 430 million, the highest since a record $ 1.6 billion in January caused some to wait for hours in long lines to buy tickets. But that prize was shared among three winning tickets. The Colombian who earned US $ 900 million for 20 minutes Only one winning ticket took the prize on Saturday, although it is not known if it was bought by a group or by a single person. Kripe said that the winner can choose a single payment of 284.1 million dollars. It is not the first time that the Powerball falls in New Jersey. In 2013, a single winner took 383 million dollars. Seven tickets matched five numbers on Saturday and awarded one million dollars each: three in New York, two in Illinois and one in California and Virginia. Powerball is played in 44 states and in Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
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