Oregon Powerball player wins $1.3B jackpot after 3 months without a grand prize

A Powerball participant in Oregon received a jackpot value greater than $1.3 billion on Sunday, ending a winless streak that had stretched greater than three months.

The only ticket matched all six numbers drawn to win the jackpot value $1.326 billion, Powerball mentioned in a press release.

The jackpot has a money worth of $621 million if the winner chooses to take a lump sum quite than an annuity paid over 30 years, with a direct payout adopted by 29 annual installments. The prize is topic to federal taxes, whereas many states additionally tax lottery winnings.

The successful numbers drawn early Sunday morning had been: 22, 27, 44, 52, 69 and the pink Powerball 9.

Till the newest drawing, nobody had received Powerball’s prime prize since New Yr’s Day, amounting to 41 consecutive drawings with no jackpot winner, tying a streak set twice earlier than in 2022 and 2021.

Oregon Lottery says the successful Powerball ticket was offered in Portland on Saturday, however doesn’t point out at which retailer it was offered. The company provides that the winner has a 12 months to return ahead and declare the prize.

“I need to congratulate the winner on this life altering second. Nobody in Oregon has ever received a prize on this scale, and it’s very thrilling for our workers and gamers,” mentioned Oregon Lottery Director Mike Wells in a written assertion Sunday.

The biggest Powerball prize beforehand received in Oregon was a $340 million jackpot in 2005, and the final time a Powerball jackpot was received within the state was in 2018, when a Salem man took residence $150.4 million, in accordance with Oregon Lottery.

The $1.326 billion prize ranks because the eighth largest in U.S. lottery historical past. Because the prizes develop, the drawings entice extra ticket gross sales and the jackpots subsequently grow to be more durable to hit. The sport’s lengthy odds for the weekend drawing had been 1 in 292.2 million.

Saturday evening’s scheduled drawing was held up and occurred within the Florida Lottery studio simply earlier than 2:30 a.m. Sunday to allow one of many organizers to finish required procedures earlier than the scheduled time of 10:59 p.m., Powerball mentioned in a press release.

“Powerball sport guidelines require that each single ticket offered nationwide be checked and verified in opposition to two totally different laptop methods earlier than the successful numbers are drawn,” the assertion mentioned. “That is executed to make sure that each ticket offered for the Powerball drawing has been accounted for and has an equal likelihood to win. Tonight, now we have one jurisdiction that wants additional time to finish that pre-draw course of.”

Powerball is performed in 45 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

OPB workers contributed to this story.