Powerball has kicked away 2022 in grand fashion. Two lucky players claimed last-place night’s jackpot, worth $632.6 million.
The Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), which operates Powerball, said ii tickets sold inwards California and Wisconsin apiece matched all sise numbers during lowest night’s Jan 5 draw. The winning numbers were 6, 14, 25, 33, 46, and the Powerball number 17.
Both tickets overcame the severely long odds of 1 inward 292.2 zillion past matching all sextet balls.
The $632.6 jillion jackpot is the 11th largest drawing aggregate won in US history. MUSL explains that from each one fine is worth $316.3 million, or $225.1 trillion should the victor opt for the one-time hard cash option.
Last nighttime offered upwardly the seventh-largest Powerball jackpot in the game’s history. Powerball began inward Apr of 1992.
Top 10 Powerball Wins
- $1.586 Billion – Jan. 13, 2016 – CA, FL, TN
- $768.4 Million – March 27, 2019 – WI
- $758.7 Million – Aug. 23, 2017 – MA
- $731.1 Million – Jan. 20, 2021 – MD
- $699.8 Million – Oct. 4, 2021 – CA
- $687.8 Million – Oct. 27, 2018 – IA, NY
- $632.6 Million – Jan. 5, 2022 – CA, WI
- $590.5 Million – May 18, 2013 – FL
- $587.5 Million – Nov. 28, 2012 – AZ, MO
- $564.1 Million – Feb. 11, 2015 – NC, PR, TX
Two Tickets, Two Different Prizes
Last night’s winning Powerball just the ticket in Calif. was sold at a 7-Eleven inward Sacramento. The winning ticket inwards Badger State was purchased by someone placed inward Green River Bay, but Badger State Lottery officials didn’t pinpoint where it was sold.
Assuming both winners accept the lump immediate payment option, the lucky recipients testament collect vastly different fortunes. Both will follow striking with an in force(p) federal tax of 37 percent, reducing their payouts from $316.3 million by $117 jillion to $199.3 million.
The Calif. winner testament find that amount, as the tell doesn’t task lottery winnings. The Wisconsin River winner, however, will want to make up a 7.65 percent country assess on the sum, reducing the last prize to around $175.1 million.
State drawing laws inward to each one state prohibit the winners from remaining anonymous. The Wisconsin River victor has 180 days to come forward, while the California victor has upwards to a year.
Secondary Prizes
While the odds are small to none of winning the Powerball jackpot, the popular lottery mettlesome has legion(p) lower-tier prizes that add up with practically best odds. Powerball says a participant has an overall chance of unity inwards 24.9 of winning a prize.
During in conclusion night’s draw, 12 tickets matched all pentad white-hot balls for a $1 gazillion prize each. Two of those tickets purchased the $1 add-on Power Play alternative that doubled their appreciate to $2 million.
Seventy-seven other Powerball tickets come to quaternary of the lily-white balls and the Powerball to win $50,000 prizes. Thirteen of those had the Power Play alternative to accept their appreciate to $100,000.
A summate of 1,624,926 tickets won the lower limit prize of simply matching the Powerball to win $4, or dual the $2 Powerball criterion fine cost.