Key takeaways:
- A lucky ticket holder in California has won the estimated $1 billion Powerball jackpot.
- The winning numbers for Wednesday’s drawing were 7, 10, 11, 13 and 24, with a Powerball of 24.
- The winning ticket was sold at a yet-to-be-determined location in California.
A lucky ticket holder in California has won the estimated $1 billion Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said Wednesday night.
The winning ticket was sold in Los Angeles County, making it the second time in eight months that a $1 billion Powerball ticket was sold in the area. In November, a lucky man at Joe’s Service Center in Altadena correctly guessed the numbers accompanying the world-record Powerball jackpot of $2.04 billion.
The winning numbers for Wednesday’s drawing were 7, 10, 11, 13 and 24, with a Powerball of 24. The ticket holder or holders will get to pick either an estimated lump sum payment of $516.8 million or an annuity.
The Powerball jackpot had been estimated at $1 billion but was $1.08 billion when the drawing occurred Wednesday night. It was the third time in the game’s history that the jackpot passed the estimated $1 billion mark. The jackpot had last been won on April 19, and jackpots increase every time someone fails to win the top prize.
The winning ticket was sold at a yet-to-be-determined location in California. Lottery officials said they would announce the location of the winning ticket at a later date.
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