A man came to collect the ticket this Monday The Powerball jackpot is 1.326 million dollars, Oregon officials announced.
At present, the details of the lucky winner are not known. Oregon Lottery Yes, a statement said the ticket was purchased A convenient store Built-in pantry Northeast of downtown Portland.
“For that Oregon Lottery“This is an unprecedented success in winning the jackpot,” said Mike Wells, director Oregon Lottery.
“We are taking all precautions to verify the winner before awarding the prize money”he added.
The cash value of the jackpot is $621 million if the winner wants to receive an amount Instead of an annuity paid over 30 years, the immediate payment consists of 29 annual installments.
Prize is subject to federal and state taxes in Oregon.
“Built-in pantry “I'm excited to learn that one of our 104 stores in Oregon sold a Powerball lottery ticket (that won) for $1.3 billion,” said President and CEO Jonathan Polanski. Built-in pantry.
The jackpot drawn early Sunday morning was the fourth-largest jackpot in the Powerball lottery and the eighth-largest among games of chance that award jackpot prizes in the United States.According to Oregon Lottery.
Winning numbers: 22, 27, 44, 52, 69 and red Powerball 9.
Saturday night's scheduled drawing was delayed and Sunday morning at 2:30 a.m. at the Florida Lottery studio to allow one of the organizers to complete the necessary procedures prior to the scheduled drawing time of 10:59 p.m.
It's the second time in the last 17 months that a major Powerball jackpot drawing has been delayed, and the November 2022 Powerball drawing record $2.04 billion won on a ticket sold in Southern California was delayed nearly 10 times. bell
In that case the Minnesota Lottery later announced a technical problem with its two-tier verification process, which is operated by third-party vendors.
The last Powerball jackpot won in Oregon was $150.4 million, claimed by a Salem man in 2018.
The biggest jackpot ever collected in that state in 2005 was 340 million, according to local media.
Before this weekend, the Powerball jackpot had gone 41 consecutive drawings without a winner, previously tying the streak set twice in 2022 and 2021.
As prizes increase, drawings attract more ticket sales, which increases the chances of jackpots being shared among multiple winners, something that didn't happen this time, as the jackpot was won by one person.
The odds of winning the jackpot are one in 292.2 million.
Powerball is played in 45 states plus Washington DC, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
