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€120.0 million (US$126.8 million) was the largest jackpot in the Eurojackpot history, won on 6 December, 2024 by two tickets in Germany. €371.1 million (US$394.6 million) was the largest single-ticket jackpot in Italy's SuperEnalotto lottery, won on 16 February 2023.
The cash option in the US can be 40–60% of the advertised annuity amount. Specific payouts for any single draw deviate from the expected payout advertised before a draw, and depends especially on if the jackpot is hit. Typically jackpot amounts that are not hit or paid out are then rolled over to the next draw.
On November 8, 2022, a single ticket purchased in Altadena, California, was the only winner of a $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot, the largest in U.S. lottery history. [73] The prize was claimed on February 14, 2023. The winner was revealed as Edwin Castro. He opted to collect his prize as a lump sum payment of $997.6 million.
The jackpot is $785 million — the sixth-largest prize in lottery history — after 22 straight draws with no winner, according to WVNS 59. With odds of winning at one in 302.6 million, if ...
Four Powerball jackpots have been won in Oregon; a $38.4 million winner from Eugene in 1992; a $33.8 million winner from Beaverton in 1999; a family from Jacksonville won a then-record $340 million jackpot in 2005; and in March 2007 a man from Milwaukie, won a $182.7 million jackpot. Powerball's cash option began in 1997.
Payout Straight: The player chooses any three digits. If the three digits, and their order, match the winning number drawn, the player wins. 500 to 1 Boxed: If the three digits, regardless of their order, match the winning number, the player wins. 80 to 1 The payout differs if a winning boxed number includes two of the same digit. 160 to 1 ...
The Sizzler option, which tripled non-jackpot prizes, was added in 2008. The basic game, $1 per play, was unchanged until 2013, when the advertised jackpot changed from the annuity value (25 equal yearly payments) to cash, and "taxes-paid"; the annuity option was eliminated, as winners almost always chose cash instead of the long-term payout.
The first Powerball drawing including Ohio was the following night. A ticket bought in Ohio for the June 2, 2010, Powerball drawing became its first potential Powerball jackpot winner; it is the first time a lottery selling either Mega Millions or Powerball ( but not both ) on January 31, 2010 sold a jackpot-winning ticket for its newer game ...