Michigan Powerball Ticket Hits $842M Jackpot, Game’s Fifth-Richest Prize

Monday was a outstanding scratch line to the New Year for a lucky Powerball participant in Michigan.

After the Powerball jackpot evaded players for 34 sequential drawings dating support to mid-October, a bingle just the ticket sold inward boodle matched the Phoebe drawn lily-white balls and the carmine Powerball during Monday night’s pull. The winning numbers were 12, 21, 42, 44, 49, and the carmine Powerball 1. The Power Play multiplier factor was 3X.

The bearer of the lone winning jackpot just the ticket will have the alternative to pick up the full economic value of the advertised jackpot paid out o'er 29 years or to have a one-time cash in alternative of more or less $425.2 million. The prizes are before federal and land taxes.

“What an unbelievable beginning to the New Year for Powerball,” said Drew Svitko, chair of the Powerball Product Group and the executive manager of the PA Lottery. “In increase to our liberal jackpot winner, at that place are hundreds of honest causes supported past US lotteries that testament invite farther funding from this jackpot run.”

After the feds take their 37% cut, which is the good tax range imposed on the nation’s highest earners, and Great Lakes State levies its 4.25% tell tax, the winner testament receive nearly $496.2 gazillion through the rente or $249.8 trillion inwards cash.

Top 10 Powerball Jackpots

  1. $2.04 Billion — Nov. 7, 2022 — Calif.
  2. $1.765 Billion — Oct. 11, 2023 — Calif.
  3. $1.586 Billion — Jan. 13, 2016 — Calif., Fla., Tenn.
  4. $1.08 Billion — July 19, 2023 — Calif.
  5. $842.4 Million — Jan. 1, 2024 — Mich.
  6. $768.4 Million — March 27, 2019 — Wis.
  7. $758.7 Million — Aug. 23, 2017 — Mass.
  8. $754.6 Million — Feb. 6, 2023 — Wash.
  9. $731.1 Million — Jan. 20, 2021 — Md.
  10. $699.8 Million — Oct. 4, 2021 — Calif.

Winner’s Identity

Whoever overcame the dismal odds of one in 292.2 million inward winning Monday night’s Powerball jackpot testament ace daylight turn known to the public. In Michigan, lottery winners must agree to earmark their names to turn division of the public track record when collecting major prizes. The land statute is intentional to ensure the public’s trust inwards the lottery’s operations.

The lucky just the ticket was sold at the Food Castle at 3035 E. Grand Blanc Rd. in Grand Blanc. The quick-stop stock testament get a $100K bonus for merchandising the winning ticket.

I don’t experience who won. I hope it’s 1 of our regulars,” Bill Nannonhi, Food Castle owner, told The Detroit News.

If the winner wants to select the annuity, they must add up frontwards within 60 days to notify the drawing of the defrayal preference. The fine can be redeemed for the cash option for upwards to a year.

New Year’s Day Winners

Along with the Chicago player’s life-changing win, Powerball officials said to a greater extent than 1.8 million tickets won some sort of appreciate through the game’s Nina from Carolina ways to win. Unfortunately for players, the great absolute majority of those winning plays — over 1.45 one thousand thousand tickets — won simply $4 to $7.

Four tickets won $1 gazillion to each one after matching the Phoebe white balls but not the reddish Powerball. Another deuce tickets also matched the Phoebe drawn snowy numbers, but purchased the $1 add-on Power Play to forked their prize to $2 million.