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One single ticket in Florida has matched all the numbers to win the highest Powerball lottery jackpot in history at an estimated US$590.5 million (NZ$710m), officials said.
The lone winner was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida, according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O’Connell.
The winner was not immediately identified publicly and she did not give any indication hours after Saturday’s (NZT Sunday) drawing whether anyone had already stepped forward with the ticket.
With four out of every five possible combinations of numbers in the multistate lottery in play, someone is almost sure to win the game’s highest jackpot, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars — and that’s after taxes. Saturday night’s winning numbers were 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball of 11.
Estimates had earlier put the jackpot at about US$600m (NZ$720m). But Powerball’s online site said that its latest tabulation of the tickets sold put the estimated jackpot at about an estimated US$590.5m (NZ$710m).
The lone winner was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida, according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O’Connell.
The winner was not immediately identified publicly and she did not give any indication hours after Saturday’s (NZT Sunday) drawing whether anyone had already stepped forward with the ticket.
With four out of every five possible combinations of numbers in the multistate lottery in play, someone is almost sure to win the game’s highest jackpot, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars — and that’s after taxes. Saturday night’s winning numbers were 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball of 11.
Estimates had earlier put the jackpot at about US$600m (NZ$720m). But Powerball’s online site said that its latest tabulation of the tickets sold put the estimated jackpot at about an estimated US$590.5m (NZ$710m).
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