Ticket In Washington State Wins $754M PowerballLump Sum Payment Worth $407.2 Million |
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A single ticket in Washington won a Powerball jackpot worth $754.6 million ($407.2 million cash) after matching all six numbers drawn in the Monday, February 6 drawing.
The white balls were 5, 11, 22, 23, and 69, and the red Powerball was 7. The Power Play multiplier was 2X.
The Powerball jackpot that has eluded players since last November was hit on the 34th drawing of the jackpot run. Final ticket sales pushed the jackpot beyond its earlier estimate to $754.6 million at the time of the drawing, making it the fifth-largest Powerball jackpot and ninth-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever won.
The ticket holder will choose between an annuitized prize of $754.6 million or a lump sum payment of $407.2 million. Both prize options are before taxes. If the winner selects the annuity option, they will receive one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5% each year.
More than 1.7 million tickets won cash prizes totaling $21.1 million in Monday’s drawing. The overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24.9. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
Big winners include five tickets (two in Michigan and three in New York) that matched all five white balls to win $1 million prizes. One ticket in Texas matched all five white balls and doubled the prize to $2 million by including the Power Play option for an additional $1 per play. There were also 58 tickets nationwide that won $50,000 prizes and 16 tickets that won $100,000 prizes.
Other Powerball jackpots recently won include a $632.6 million jackpot hit on January 5, 2022, and split by winners in California and Wisconsin, and the world record $2.04 billion jackpot won on November 7, 2022, in California.
Powerball tickets are $2 per play. Tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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