A single ticket sold at Joe’s Service Station in Altadena, California, matched the winning numbers 10, 33, 41, 47, 56 and the Powerball 10 to win a record-shattering $2.04 billion top prize on Tuesday morning, after technical issues caused a short delay to Monday’s drawing.
The drawing also produced 22 winners of $1 million across 16 states, each of whom matched all five numbers minus the Powerball. One winner from Florida will take home $2 million after matching the five numbers while playing the Power Play multiplier option.
Three $1 million tickets were sold in both California and New Jersey, while two winners were drawn in both Florida and Missouri. Single $1 million tickets were sold in Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Washington state.
An additional 225 tickets worth $50,000 each were sold across the country, each matching four out of five numbers plus the Powerball. There were 42 tickets that each won $100,000 by matching the same numbers while playing the Power Play option, which was drawn as 2X on Tuesday morning.
Smaller prizes included 21,430 tickets that each won $100, matching either four out five numbers without the Powerball or three out of five numbers plus the Powerball. Another 4,445 tickets won $200 with the Power Play option.
Excluding the record-breaking jackpot, lottery officials say that a total of $98,148,413 will be paid out to 11,206,806 winning tickets. The odds of winning any prize are 1 in 24.9, while the jackpot carries odds of 1 in 292.2 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL).
Powerball, which started in 1992 and is operated by MUSL, is available in 45 U.S. states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets cost $2 each, with the Power Play multiplier option available for an additional $1.
California’s $2.04 billion winner had yet to claim their prize as of Wednesday. The top prize grew to become the largest-ever jackpot during a streak of more than 40 drawings without a jackpot winner.
The big winner will have the option of taking a lump sum cash payment of $997.6 million or the full $2.04 billion in annual installments over 29 years. They have up to one year to come forward to claim their prize.
Although the winner may wish to remain anonymous, California law requires the state lottery to publicly disclose the full name of the winner. Only 11 states allow winners to remain anonymous.
This year, Dorice Donegan “Dee Dee” Moore, who’s in jail for the 2009 slaying of $30 million lottery jackpot winner Abraham Lee Shakespeare, spoke out in support of a proposed Florida law to allow anonymous winners.
Moore had contacted Shakespeare after he hit the jackpot and offered to manage his winnings. After he agreed, she reportedly stole his money and fatally shot him twice in the chest.
Newsweek has reached out to MUSL for comment.
