The Florida winners have now come forward five weeks after the winning tickets were drawn.
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Long-time Melbourne Beach residents, David Kaltschmidt and Maureen Smith, claimed their share of the record Powerball jackpot five weeks after the Wednesday night drawing in January.
A Tennessee couple with another of the winning tickets quickly came forward last month, announcing they would take their share in an immediate cash payment and planned to keep their jobs.
The couple is taking a $327,835,077 lump sum before taxes in the name of the Nickel 95 Trust, lottery officials said. They only told a few family members this week, then went public at a press conference in Tallahassee on Wednesday.
The winning ticket was purchased at a Publix grocery store in Melbourne Beach.
The winning numbers were 08, 27, 34, 04 and 19, and the Powerball was 10.
Now that the Florida pair have been revealed as the second set of Powerball winners, just one ticket remains unclaimed.
Someone with incredible luck snagged one third of a $1.58 billion Powerball jackpot – the largest lottery jackpot ever in the world.
“I’ve been playing them for so many years I really don’t remember”, she said.
If a jackpot is never claimed, Florida Lottery rules require 80 percent of the money to be given to state education funds. “We didn’t believe it. We just kept watching TV and going online and rechecking and rechecking”, Smith said.
“We were anxious about what was going to happen”.
“It’s still like a ‘pinch me, ‘” said Kaltschmidt.
The couple, originally from Central Islip, have been living in Florida since 1990 in a home that’s valued at around $300,000, according to Heavy.
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Odds of having a winning ticket were placed at 1 in 292 million. The Melbourne Beach couple has played the winning numbers for about 30 years, but not regularly.
