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The winning numbers for Monday night's Powerball drafting are: 13-19-36-39-59 and a Powerball 13. The estimated jackpot had surged to conscionable nether $1 billion, the 2nd highest prize successful the game's history.
People showed up astatine convenience stores, groceries and state stations crossed the state connected Halloween hoping to acquisition the winning ticket.
Among them was Janice Turner, 1 of a dependable watercourse of radical — immoderate wearing costumes — buying Powerball tickets astatine an outdoor kiosk successful midtown Manhattan.
"I'm hoping to beryllium the adjacent billionaire," Turner said. "I deliberation it's going to beryllium fortunate Halloween."
In the aforesaid enactment was Scott Henyan, who was already making plans for a jackpot win.
"I would decidedly retire, decorativeness my house, astir apt bargain different house, possibly bargain a mates of bully cars, instrumentality a bully vacation," helium said. "And past astir apt acceptable each my friends and household up for the remainder of their lives and question the world, you know, bash immoderate I wanted."
In Houston, 60-year-old Candy Dumas, a existent property location stager, said she came to a Super K Food Store due to the fact that of the precocious payout.
"If I americium the fortunate victor tonight, the archetypal happening I'm going to bash is springiness immoderate to my church, for sure," Dumas said. "The 2nd happening would beryllium to bargain a location for my children. That's what I privation to bash to assistance my household for sure."
Guru Redey, a clerk astatine the store, said radical travel to the store from miles distant due to the fact that it has a past of selling ample jackpot winners and radical similar to imagination of owning costly things they can't afford.
Dozens of people, including Orelia Pearson, lined up Monday to bargain tickets astatine the Bluebird Liquor Store successful Hawthorne, California, which besides has a estimation arsenic being a fortunate store.
"It's a bully spot to come," Pearson said. "And erstwhile it's a bully spot to come, you're expected to travel and play and person your caput connected it and beryllium affirmative and things volition hap for you."
And Sally Tanner said she would springiness overmuch of her winnings distant aft buying herself a location and paying disconnected her son's assemblage costs.
"We're going done a recession close now," Tanner said. "The system sucks, truthful I would beryllium a giver. I'm a giver, but I volition support immoderate for us. I conjecture my cupful volition beryllium full, but erstwhile it overflows, I'll bless others."
The jackpot soared aft nary 1 matched each six numbers successful Saturday night's drawing. It's the fifth-largest lottery jackpot successful U.S. history. The biggest prize was a $1.586 cardinal Powerball jackpot won by 3 ticketholders successful 2016.
No 1 has deed each six numbers since Aug. 3, a testament to however slim the likelihood are of winning the jackpot: 1 successful 292.2 million.
Monday's immense jackpot comes little than 2 years aft different lottery reached the $1 cardinal mark. A summons matched each six numbers drawn Jan. 22, 2021, successful the Mega Millions lottery to triumph the $1.05 cardinal dollar jackpot.
Massive lottery jackpots person go much communal successful caller years arsenic lottery officials person adjusted crippled rules and summons prices to pump up the apical prizes. The astir caller tweak came successful August, erstwhile Powerball officials added an further drafting time — going from 2 drawings a week to 3 — successful an effort to physique larger prizes and boost sales.
Although the likelihood of winning are meager, the chances of idiosyncratic — oregon adjacent aggregate players — coming up with the winning numbers is growing. That's due to the fact that arsenic the jackpot grows, much radical pony up to play.
The $1 cardinal jackpot prize is for winners who opt to instrumentality the afloat magnitude piecemeal implicit 29 yearly payments. Nearly each winners opt for a little currency payment, which for Monday's drafting would beryllium an estimated $497.3 million.
Once a winning summons matches the drawing, the Powerball jackpot starts implicit again astatine $20 cardinal and continues to turn each drafting until it is won.
Powerball is played successful 45 states, arsenic good arsenic Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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