Winning Jackpot Tickets in $1.5 Billion Powerball Sold in Three States

A California Lottery official said that winning tickets for the $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot were sold in California, Florida and Tennessee.

A 7-Eleven store in Chula Vista sold one of 12 tickets in California that matched five of the six numbers in tonight’s multi-state Powerball drawing, lottery officials announced.

Beating odds of 1 in 292 million, some extremely lucky person or persons bought a winning Powerball ticket in Chino Hills, California.

Additionally, on person in Tennessee won $2 million, one person won $100,000, and 17 people won $50,000.

The world’s biggest lotto jackpot will be split three ways. Anyone with just a matching Powerball number gets four bucks.

Information about where the winning ticket was sold in Mumford will be released after all required security procedures are complete, lottery officials said early Thursday.

Tickets are for $2 but you can “upgrade” the ticket to something that increases the potential prize amounts.

In fact dozens of people gathered Wednesday night in suburban Los Angeles outside the store where the winning ticket was sold.

The Multi-State Lottery Association did not identify the winners.

Sales were fast-paced since Saturday when no one won the jackpot and the top Powerball prize exceeded $1 billion for the first time. The Florida jackpot victor will share the $1,586,400,000 prize with winners in CA and TN, the lottery says.

Powerball sales in MA for last night’s drawing totaled $32,970,847, the state lottery said, with yesterday’s sales alone totaling $17,513,035.

The Powerball lottery is played in 44 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and two U.S. territories: Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Hours before the drawing, lottery officials said 85.8% of all possible number combinations had been sold on lottery tickets nationwide.

The victor would be subject to the highest federal tax rate of 40 percent.