A California man won $2.04 billion in the lottery, the official Powerball website said Tuesday, a world record after months without a big winner, according to an AFP report.
According to the agency, a single winning ticket with the numbers 10, 33, 41, 47, 56 and 10 for the game “Powerball” was found in the USA.
“The California Lottery produced the FIRST billionaire in its history!” The California Lottery tweeted Tuesday, adding that “the lucky ticket was sold at Joe’s Service Center in Altadena.”
The lucky winner will have to choose between receiving the entire amount in installments over three decades or a lump sum payment of $997.6 million, according to the Powerball estimate.
As of Monday evening, 40 consecutive drawings had not had a single top prize, bringing the jackpot to more than $2 billion.
The jackpot sparked a gambling frenzy in the United States, and the drawing originally scheduled for Monday night had to be delayed by several hours because a lottery in one of the participating states asked for more time to process its data, according to a statement posted on the California Lottery website on Tuesday. on Twitter.
The odds of winning the top prize with a $2 ticket were just one in 292.2 million. For comparison, according to US medical professionals, the chance of being struck by lightning is one in a million.
Source: Hot News RO
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