The winning ticket for the estimated $1.08 billion Powerball jackpot was purchased at the Las Palmitas Mini Market in downtown Los Angeles. The ticket holder will get to pick either a lump sum payment of $558.1 million or an annuity for the $1.08 billion.
Earlier this year, a ticket sold in Washington state won a $754.6 million jackpot, the game's sixth largest.the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million., an estimated $720 million jackpot is up for grabs Friday night after no one matched all six numbers in Tuesday night's drawing. Those winning numbers were 19, 22, 31, 37, 54 with a Mega Ball of 18.If someone wins Friday night, the cash option would be an estimated $369.6 million.
The two jumbo-sized jackpots spurred some people to pool their money and buy tickets by the dozen in the hopes of winning big. In Southern California, a woman bought 50 lottery tickets on Tuesday at a 7-Eleven for her and her co-workers, CBS News Los Angeles reported. "I already told them today: If I win tonight, I'm not even coming in, for sure, they know," the woman told the station. "My boss is in on this with me."
Powerball tickets cost $2 each and are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Powerball drawings are held every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. ET.
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