After numerous drawings without a big victor, there were at least three winning tickets sold for the record Powerball jackpot of $1.6 billion.
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Hundreds gather outside this 7-Eleven in Chino Hills Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016, after it was announced that a winning Powerball ticket was sold at the store.
Tickets with more matching numbers are eligible for a prize of $7, $100, $50,000 or $1 million.
The winners in Florida and Tennessee have not come forward, lottery officials in those states said.
Lottery spokeswoman Sally Lunsford says the state recorded $5.31 million in sales in Kansas on Wednesday alone.
The estimated jackpot amounts had risen steadily since November 4, when it was reset at $40 million.
The cash value, or lump sum total, of Wednesday’s jackpot was $929.9 million.
All five numbers were matched on the ticket except for the Powerball number.
A $2 million prize was purchased at a Simonson Station Store, while a $1 million prize was claimed at Horizon Resource Cenex last January. All three states with winners have laws requiring their names to be released publicly, according to the Powerball website.
The odds of picking a winning combination were one in 292 million.
Frederick Walker of Sanford saw an abandoned completed play slip and used those numbers in buying the winning ticket, which matched all five numbers with a $1 “power play” multiplier, the lottery said. He said he was sure he had personally sold the ticket. The $1.6 billion prize was “absolutely” the world’s biggest jackpot ever, Grief insisted.
He went back to Dari Mart to check the ticket and was advised that he needed to go to lottery headquarters in Salem to pick up his winnings.
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Powerball is a multistate game played in 44 states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
