The ticket was bought in Lutz, Florida, which is just north of Tampa.
Die
winning numbers was 06-14-38-39-65-06
with a 3x Power Play.
Before Saturday night,
the jackpot was last won on January 30, Volgens
CNN affiliate WFLA.
Powerball is a lottery game where a player chooses five numbers from a set of 69 white balls and one number from 26 red Powerballs. For an additional cost, players can add Power Play to their ticket, which can multiply non-jackpot prizes.
A person has a 1 in 24.9
chance of winning regardless of the cash prize amount,
according to Powerball’s webwerf.
Winners can also choose whether they’d like to collect their prize as an annuity or a lump-sum payment.
Powerball is offered in 45 state,
including the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
The record for largest jackpot in US history was just above $ 1.5 miljard. In Januarie 2016,
this Powerball prize of $ 1.586
billion was split between three winners.
Second to that, a
South Carolinian anonymously claimed their $ 1.537
billion prize in October 2018,
making them the largest single-winner in the US.
The next drawing is March 31, 2021, with an estimated jackpot of $ 20 million and a cash value of $ 13.6 miljoen.
CNN’s Travis Caldwell, Amanda Jackson and Pierre Meilhan contributed to this report.