The proprietor of Las Palmitas Mini Market, Navor Herrera, obtained a $1M examine throughout a press convention with Powerball officers on Thursday morning. (FOX 11)
The Powerball jackpot reached a stage forward of Monday evening’s drawing making it one of many greatest that the sport has seen thus far in 2023.
The Powerball’s grand prize climbed to $522 million after there have been no winners in Saturday’s drawing, an annuitized payout that the lottery declared the “third-largest” jackpot of the 12 months. Its one-time money worth, in the meantime, totaled $252.4 million.
The most important jackpot that Powerball has recorded 12 months to this point was valued at $1.08 billion, based on the lottery. Behind that was a $754.6 million grand prize in February.
A girl holds Powerball lottery tickets inside a retailer in Homestead, Florida, on July 19, 2023. (GIORGIO VIERA/AFP through Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
The jackpot reached $1.08 billion in July, with somebody in California having bought the fortunate ticket, Powerball stated. Thirty-eight back-to-back drawings preceded the particular person in California scoring that windfall, which represented its third-largest ever.
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Two tickets price $1 million every had been bought in New Hampshire and Virginia. In Florida, an individual landed a windfall of $2 million, the lottery stated.
The subsequent drawing shall be Sept. 11 at 10:59 p.m. ET. There’s a 1 in 292.2 million probability of profitable the grand prize.
Gamers of fellow lottery Mega Tens of millions have a chance to attempt to get a $141 million grand prize on Tuesday evening.
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