BOSTON – The numbers for the historic $2.04 billion Powerball drawing have been last but not least drawn Tuesday early morning, about 10 hours late, but it was really worth the wait for someone out west. The lone winning ticket was sold in California.
The profitable quantities were being 10-33-41-47-56 and the Powerball was 10.
The one particular-time cash choice was $997.6 million, prior to taxes.
According to California Lottery, one particular successful ticket was bought at Joe’s Services Middle in Altadena.
In Massachusetts, 1 person matched all five quantities but not the Electricity Ball and gained a $1 million prize. The Lottery has not yet disclosed where the ticket was sold.
The jackpot was at first $1.9 billion Monday night, but it grew over and above that estimate as the figures have been formally drawn at 8:57 a.m. Tuesday at the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee.
The drawing was scheduled for 10:59 p.m. Monday but it was held off due to the fact a person state’s lottery desired “more time to system its revenue and play info,” the Multi-Condition Lottery Association reported in a statement Tuesday morning.
That condition was afterwards disclosed to be Minnesota.
“After unprecedented lottery curiosity, Minnesota’s revenue verification system brought on a processing delay on Monday, Nov. 7. The hold off was required to ensure the Powerball drawing could be conducted securely and correctly. At no time was the integrity of the procedure compromised,” the Minnesota Lottery claimed in a assertion Tuesday.
“The duration of time is unprecedented, stuff like this does transpire. This happened final month when the jackpot was at $500 million but that delay was a considerably shorter window of less than an hour,” Mark William Bracken, Mass Lottery’s interim govt director, advised WBZ-Television set.
Powerball is played in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The odds of successful the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
