Winning Powerball numbers for $793.6M jackpot drawn
With an estimated jackpot of $793.6 million up for grabs Monday night, the winning numbers have been drawn.
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With an estimated jackpot of $793.6 million up for grabs Monday night, the winning numbers have been drawn.
Waldemar "Bud" Tasch was on a backpacking trip in the wilderness with his dog when his winning number was called.
The pot of gold soared after no winning tickets were sold for Tuesday night's estimated $1.1 billion grand prize.
Lottery players will have another shot at a huge Mega Millions jackpot and a chance to break a stretch of more than three months without a big winner of the game.
There have been no Mega Millions jackpot winners since April 18.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are about one in 302.58 million.
The winning Powerball ticket was purchased in Los Angeles. The grand prize was the third largest in the game's history since it started in 1992.
The winning numbers were 7, 23, 24, 32, 43 and the Powerball was 18.
No one matched the numbers in Saturday night's drawing, so the jackpot has now grown to a whopping $522 million!
Johnnie Taylor's win is millions of dollars more than the state's last record-setting prize in 2019.
Michael Schlemmer had just $40 in his pocket when he "coasted" into a gas station and bought a scratch-off card while filling his tank.
She plans on buying a house and investing the rest of her money.
Pharris Frank told the lottery he was out of town for work when he bought the ticket.
A woman who won the fifth-largest jackpot in Powerball history is a longtime Boeing worker who was inspired to buy the lucky ticket when she saw the jackpot hit $747 million
The winner was a man named Edwin Castro, said California Lottery Director Alva Johnson.
No one has hit the lottery jackpot since November.
No single ticket matched all the numbers on Saturday's Powerball lottery drawing so the jackpot for Monday has grown to $613 million.
Someone matched all six numbers Friday and won an estimated $1.35 billion Mega Millions prize, overcoming steep odds
Multi-State Lottery Association tweaked the Mega Millions lottery so it would generate large jackpots, one expert said.
Another Mega Millions drawing, another night without a big winner.
Fagervik bought his lucky $2 ticket for the Dec. 28 drawing from the Quality Mart on River Ridge Drive in Winston-Salem. He won his prize by matching all five white balls in the drawing.
Officials say it is the second-largest Mega Millions jackpot in 2022, surpassing the $502 million jackpot claimed in October.
How about waking up a billionaire? The Powerball lottery is up to 1.9 billion, that's the highest jackpot in its history.
Financial planners say prospective lottery winners should consider ditching a lump sum payout in favor of a yearly annuity.
No one won Wednesday's pot of gold of about $700 million, which was already the game's largest this year.
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The 21 year old turned himself in to deputies two months after the crash where authorities say he was drunk.
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