He or she only had a one in 292 million chance of pocketing such a sum. But the United States does have a new billionaire, according to information from CNN. A winning ticket has, in fact, been sold for the Powerball game of chance. According to the California Lottery Twitter account, the ticket was surrendered at a neighborhood grocery store in Los Angeles. This gain is the seventh highest in US history.
To pick it up, you had to choose the following number combination: 7, 13, 10, 24, 11, then again 24 for the additional number. This combination had a slim chance of happening. The American lottery had not registered a single winner for 38 draws, which explains this particularly high sum of one billion dollars. Before that, the last winner was from Ohio and took down “only” $252 million.
California is also particularly lucky in the game, since the record is held there with 2.04 billion dollars won… barely five months ago.
“Congratulations to our new Powerball jackpot winner and the California Lottery! For more than 30 years, Powerball has been bringing people together to dream big and win big, and in doing so, has raised billions of dollars for worthy lottery-backed causes,” said Drew Svitko, President of Powerball Product Group.
