No one in the Lehigh Valley hit the big jackpot in Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing but someone has come away with a $1 million ticket.
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Iowa Lottery players won almost 225,000 prizes in Wednesday’s world-record Powerball jackpot drawing.
Officials have not released information about the store that sold the ticket, but they say the retailer will receive a $25,000 check.
There was a windfall too for Balbir Atwal, owner of a 7-Eleven franchise in Chino Hills, a Los Angeles suburb, who will pocket a US$1 million bonus for selling a winning ticket.
The first store to confirm a victor was a 7-Eleven in Chino Hills, California, just outside of Los Angeles. Each victor will get more than $500 million. More than $300 million in Powerball tickets have been sold in California since then, almost matching all of last fiscal year’s sales, Traverso said. A spokesman for the California Lottery says winning Powerball tickets have also been sold in Tennessee and Florida.
California also had 12 tickets match 5 of the 6 numbers, the lottery commission said. Nobody emerged to claim their winnings, but excitement was palpable outside the Publix where the ticket was sold. They can let their winnings be invested and thereby collect 30 annual payments totaling an estimated $533 million, or take their third of $983.5 million in cash all at once.
There were at least three winners for the record-shattering $1.5 billion jackpot.
Since no one matched Tuesday’s winning Mega Millions numbers of 15, 27, 29, 31 and 48 with the Mega Ball of 15, the jackpot for Friday’s drawing has jumped to $22 million.
But the owners of those tickets aren’t the only winners from the Powerball frenzy that swept the country this week.
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To claim your prize, sign the back of your ticket, keep it in a secure place and make sure to call the state Lottery at 304-558-0500 for further instructions.
