One lucky lottery player from the US, has won a €379,000,000 Powerball jackpot, the American Lottery Association announced late on Sunday.
The winning ticket was sold in Nashville, Tennessee, US. The lucky winner matched all 6 Powerball numbers drawn on Sunday, the local Lottery said in a press release.
The winning numbers were: 17-19-21-37-44; Powerball, 16. Another winning ticket matched five numbers and the Powerball number to win worth €1.7 million, the ticket was sold in North Carolina for Sunday’s game. Two other players in the US matched five numbers and won €870, 000,000 each.
The grand-prize winner is yet to come forward to claim their winnings, which is the 9th largest Powerball prize and 12th among all U.S. lottery prizes. The Tennessee Lottery in the United States advises the owner of the winning ticket to sign on the back of it and keep it safe from wear and tear in a secure location.
The lucky winner has 180 days or about 6 months from the date of the drawing, which in this case was Sunday 27th of November, to claim the jackpot and decide whether to take their big haul in one lump sum or in thirty annual payments that increase in payment over time or which is always substantially less but will be more than the €379 million calculated for what was expected to be a €355 million prize but the jackpot prize pool increased higher-than-expected with more ticket sales.
The first was a €1.4 billion jackpot that was shared among 3 ticket holders earlier in January this year. when ticket owners received approximately received €520.8 million share of the largest lottery jackpot in US history.
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