Damnn.. That's All we can say! We wish it was us. Did you play the Powerball? Are you in Arizona, Missouri? This may be good for you.
Powerball officials say the record jackpot has been won. A whopping $579.9 million Officials Thursday morning, confirmed that two winning tickets were sold: One in Arizona and one in Missouri. An additional 8,924,123 players won smaller prizes. Numbers drawn Wednesday night are: 5, 16, 22, 23, 29 and Powerball of 6. A lottery official said late Wednesday that the jackpot increased to $579.9 million by the time of the drawing, making the cash option $379.8 million.[Freep]
Two Powerball tickets worth $1 million each were sold in Michigan, according to the Michigan Lottery. The Lottery said the tickets matching five numbers drawn Wednesday night but not the Powerball were sold at a liquor store in the Grand Rapids suburb of Kentwood and a CVS pharmacy in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn.
The drawing the Multi-State Lottery Association’s prize followed 16 consecutive drawings that produced no top winner, boosting the Powerball to the second-largest potential lottery payout in U.S. history.
Tickets were selling Wednesday at a rate of 130,000 a minute nationwide, the jackpot enticing many people who rarely, if ever, play the lottery. It was not clear whether the winning tickets belonged to individuals or were purchased by groups.
Arizona lottery officials said early Thursday morning they had no information on that state's winner or winners but would announce where it was sold during a news conference later in the day.
Lottery officials in Missouri did not immediately respond to phone messages and emails seeking comment. Some experts had predicted that if one ticket hit the right numbers, chances were good that multiple ones would.
That happened in the Mega Millions drawing in March, when three ticket buyers shared a $656 million jackpot, which remains the largest lottery payout of all time. And it happened again for Wednesday's Powerball drawing.
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