A person showed up this Monday to collect the ticket graced with an impressive Powerball jackpot of 1.326 million dollars, Oregon officials announced.
Although at the moment the identity of the lucky man remains unknown, Oregon Lottery Yes, it has specified in a statement that the ticket was purchased in a convenience store Plaid Pantry in the northeastern part of the city of Portland.
“For Oregon Lottery“This is an unprecedented triumph in winning the jackpot,” said Mike Wells, director de Oregon Lottery.
“We are taking every precaution to verify the winner before awarding the prize money”he added.
The jackpot has a cash value of $621 million if the winner chooses to receive a single sum instead of an annuity paid over 30 years, which consists of an immediate payment, followed by 29 annual partial payments.
Prize is subject to federal taxes and state levies in Oregon.
“Plaid Pantry is thrilled to learn that one of our 104 stores in Oregon sold the Powerball lottery ticket (which won) $1.3 billion,” said Jonathan Polonsky, president and CEO of Plaid Pantry.
The jackpot drawn early Sunday morning was the fourth largest jackpot in the Powerball lottery and the eighth largest among the games of chance that award jackpot prizes in the United States.according to Oregon Lottery.
The winning numbers were: 22, 27, 44, 52, 69 and the red Powerball 9.
The drawing scheduled for Saturday night was delayed and took place at the Florida Lottery studio just before 2:30 a.m. Sunday to allow one of the organizers to complete the required procedures before the scheduled drawing time. 10:59 p.m.
It is the second time there has been a delay in the drawing of a huge Powerball jackpot in the last 17 months, as in November 2022 the Powerball drawing for a record $2.04 billion, won with a single ticket sold in Southern California was delayed almost 10 hours.
In that case the Minnesota Lottery later announced that there was a technical problem with its two-tier verification process, operated by third-party vendors.
The last Powerball jackpot won in Oregon was $150.4 million, claimed by a Salem man in 2018.
The largest jackpot collected in that state was 340 million in 2005, according to local media.
Before this weekend, Powerball had gone 41 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner, tying a streak set twice before, in 2022 and 2021.
As the prizes grow, the drawings attract more ticket sales, which increases the chances that the jackpots will be shared among multiple winners, something that has not happened this time, since the jackpot was won by a single 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.
