One of three winning Powerball tickets was sold in Munford

The three winners overcame odds of 1 in 292.2 million to land on the winning numbers, 4-8-19-27-34 and Powerball 10.

The two winning Powerball tickets bought in Idaho were sold in Ada and Clearwater counties.

According to Lottery officials, there were 11 other similar tickets sold in California – in Santa Monica, Tustin, Gardena, Irwindale, Chula Vista, Redlands, Nipton, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Vacaville and Cloverdale.

Last Saturday’s draw also produced two $50,000 winning tickets, one sold in Ada County and the other sold in Franklin County.

Three winners have claimed the $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot.

“I need to digest this”, said Naifeh, who plans to share some of her modest bounty with store employees.

The ticket in Florida was purchased at a Publix store.

“I will give to some charity, then I will share with my employee and family”, he said.

Overall, Wednesday was record day for the Tennessee lottery, officials said. “I think it put us on the map – all over the world”, he said, adding that his brother called from Australia overnight to learn if he won.

Their article, titled “27-Year-Old Hedge Fund Manager Wins Powerball Jackpot”, got so popular that it made it to the “What’s Hot” list from Alexa, an Amazon company.

Some took selfies with the store clerk, who became an instant celebrity and may well have been the man who sold the ticket.

Lopez was at a podium set up at the convenience store, at 4092 Chino Hills Parkway, to present the check to Atwal.

She stayed at the Chino Hills store through the night, going home briefly around 4 a.m.to shower and returning at 5:45 a.m., she said.

TV trucks from Memphis quickly arrived in Munford, where people marveled over the winning ticket and joked about what they would have done with the money.

Officials with the Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs the Powerball game, said they expected more than 85 percent of the possible number combinations would have been bought for the drawing.

It was the largest lottery prize ever offered in North America, and no other lottery in the world had ever featured a jackpot of that size that could be won on a single ticket. Those sales boosted the state’s retail economy as the 6,900 lottery retailers earned $7 million in commissions.

To the $1 million ticket holder, “congratulations and use it well”, Pasic said.

It is now unclear how much of the total jackpot each winning ticket is worth, lottery officials said.

Estimated jackpot amounts, which are released daily, have been steadily rising since November 4, when the jackpot was reset at $40 million.

He says the jackpot will put Chino Hills on the map.