Good news for three lucky lotto players. Last night’s half a billion dollar Powerball lottery game has been won by three winners across three states/territories. The $564.1 million jackpot will be split up and heading to North Carolina, Texas, and Puerto Rico.
The official Powerball lottery website’s news info crawl currently reads:
“There were three jackpot winners (one in North Carolina, one in Puerto Rico and one in Texas).”
That means that this Saturday night game (Feb 14, Valentines Day) has dropped down to a measly $40 million. Wait, $40 million is still a lot, especially considering it only cost two dollars win.
The three winners for the half a billion dollar drawing will split $381,138,450.16 before taxes if they chose the cash option, according to USA Today.
The last time that the Powerball lottery game away close to this much was February 19, 2014, at the official website reports:
“After waiting nearly a month and a half, we finally have a winner! No, this isn't an April Fools' Day joke, but B. Raymond Buxton does have quite the sense of humor. He purposely chose today, April 1st, to come forward and claim his massive $425.3 million Powerball jackpot prize and he did it while wearing a shirt that featured a picture of Yoda and read "Luck of the Jedi I have." Buxton claimed his prize at the California Lottery headquarters in Sacramento and took a little time to share some of his story.
“The Northern California retiree can thank his stomach for the big win. He was getting lunch at Subway, which is located inside the convenience store at Dixon Landing Chevron in Milpitas, when he decided to buy another ticket -- yes, another ticket.”
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