Nurse’s Powerball Win Turns Out to Be Son’s Prank

Over 635 million lottery tockets were purchased for Thursday raffle, affording 1-in-292.2 million odds for hitting the first-prize Powerball combination of 4, 8, 19, 27, 34 and Powerball 10.

It’s a town with only 6,000 residents. Lottery spokeswoman Rachel Petrie said she could not confirm the win meanwhile. “The store was filled with love and warmth”, said Sonia, 21, an employee at her dad’s store.

NBC was somewhat skeptical of the Robinson’s claim because they had yet to report their win to the Tennessee lottery commission.

One Tallahassee man checked his Powerball tickets. I thought I won $4.

During the “Today” show segment, the family said they don’t plan to move, and revealed they had even gone to work on Thursday. If no one claims their prize by 180 days, that money goes to Lottery fund for scholarships and after school programs.

Most of the lottery’s revenue – around 68 percent – came from sales of instant games, which generated $2.5 billion.

“It’s embarrassing. This is too much for us”, she said, visibly upset by all the fuss.

“The last Saturday and Wednesday night were really, really hectic”, said John Plakiotis, who owns the Super Day Express store in Port Charlotte and set up a dedicated lottery cash register.

Anonymity “throws a layer of assistance to someone who wants to rig a drawing”, said Dan Russell, former attorney for the Florida Lottery and now a private-practice attorney representing major casinos and gambling industry manufacturers.

Kiandrea Nelson said, “If I won, I was just going to go up there and quit my job and be like, I don’t know, share money with people who were nice to me”. 1 of 12 tickets in California with 5 of 6 winning Powerball numbers sold in PacoimaCalifornia also had 12 tickets match five of the six numbers in Wednesday’s drawing.

Hundreds gather outside the 7-Eleven, after it was announced the winning Powerball ticket was sold at the store, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 in Chino Hills, Calif. One winning ticket was sold at the store located in suburban Los Angeles said Alex Traverso, a spokesman for California lottery.

The winning tickets were sold at 777 Convenience Store at 269 Main St.in Charlestown and at Tedeschi Food Shops at 52 Bedford St.in East Bridgewater.

“Her reaction was that she didn’t believe it. She then pulled out her ticket and reviewed it with two other nurses – number by number”, said David Levy, senior manager for the center. “It just makes me want the rightful victor to come forward sooner rather than later”. “I hope they do”, Cole added. When her son sent her a photo of the winning ticket, she erupted into a celebratory dance.

Wednesday night’s drawing finally delivered a victor – three, in fact.

Powerball lottery jackpot victor Brad Duke leans against a bicycle Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005, at Gold’s Gym in Meridian, Idaho.

“I’m out here because it’s exciting to hear that someone from our little city won”, resident Claudia Gonzalez said.

His wife said they had not had any time to think about what they would do with their share of the jackpot prize but that she planned to return to work on Monday.