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Powerball hits $450-Million
Posted On Jan 06 2016
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The Powerball jackpot keeps getting bigger.
“I have sold lots of Powerball tickets and people are so excited to buy the Powerball ticket and our sales are also like double the normal sale”, Raut said.
The drawing will be held at 10:59 p.m. Wednesday. The last time the jackpot was this large was in February 2015 when three winners split $564.1 million. The jackpot represents a $500 million annuity value and a $306 million cash prize.
Right now, there is an unidentified $1 million Powerball prize victor who bought the lucky ticket on January 2 in Hartford County, according to Patterson. The only winning ticket holders to be identified were Merle and Patricia Butler of the small Southern Illinois town of Red Bud.
The jackpot for Powerball ballooned to $400 million on Monday, the largest it’s been in years but still almost $200 million less than the record. Now the jackpot has gone up once again, the victor from the upcoming drawing on Wednesday could walk away with one of the biggest winnings in USA history. You can buy your tickets up until one hour before.
The South Dakota Lottery reminds players to please play responsibly-it only takes one ticket to win the jackpot.
“If I won, I would pay off my bills and then I would set up a program to help single parents who are trying to get a house”, he said. That’s when the rush will come, just before the drawing, people waiting till the last minute to get rich.
As the drawing nears and people start gobbling up tickets, the jackpot could increase further.
Powerball is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. As it stands, the $450 million jackpot put it at the sixth largest ever, but it will continue to climb up the ranks if it goes without a victor once again.
A retired couple from Illinois, Merle and Patricia Butler, received one of the $218.6 million slices of the top prize. 84 year old Gloria C. MacKenzie of Zephyrhills Florida chose a lump sum payment of $370,800,000 after buying her ticket at a local supermarket.
