UPDATE (11am Monday):
We now know that the winning Powerball ticket worth $457 million was sold at a gas station in Lancaster County.
The Pennsylvania Lottery announced late Monday morning that the jackpot winning ticket from Saturday’s drawing was sold at a Speedway on Lancaster Road in Manheim.
“This is largest jackpot the Pennsylvania Lottery has ever awarded as well as our state’s 18th Powerball jackpot,” Lottery Executive Director Drew Svitko said in a statement. “It seems that St. Patrick’s Day brought some great luck to this fortunate Powerball player and we are anxious to meet our big winner or winners.”
Lottery officials say they can’t confirm the identity of the winner until the prize is claimed and their ticket is validated. Pennsylvania Lottery Powerball winners have one year from the drawing date to claim prizes. The Lottery encourages the holder of the winning ticket to sign the back of the ticket, call the Lottery at 717-702-8146 and file a claim at Lottery headquarters in Middletown, Dauphin County.
The ticket correctly matched all five white balls, 22-57-59-60-66, and the red Powerball 07, to win a jackpot that had been growing since January 10. The jackpot rolled 19 times before finally being won.
The Speedway that sold the winning ticket will earn $100,000.
“I’m happy to congratulate Speedway for earning a $100,000 bonus for selling this huge winning ticket,” Svitko said. “I also want to congratulate the more than 113,000 other Pennsylvania Lottery Powerball players who won prizes of varying amounts in Saturday’s drawing, and thank everyone who played.
This is the Pennsylvania Lottery’s 20th multi-state jackpot winner. It has sold 18 jackpot-winning Powerball tickets since joining the game in 2002 and two jackpot-winning Mega Millions® ticket since joining the game in 2010.
The winner may choose between accepting a $456.7 million annuity (30 payments over 29 years) or a lump sum of $273.9 million cash. Both amounts are before tax withholding. The chances of winning the Powerball jackpot are approximately 1 in 292 million.
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A Powerball jackpot ticket worth $457 million was sold in Pennsylvania.
The single-winning ticket correctly matched all six winning numbers in Saturday’s drawing: 22-57-59-60-66, and Powerball 7.
Saturday’s jackpot marks the eighth-largest pot in the game’s history.
Three other tickets- sold in California, Missouri and Texas, matched all five white balls in the drawing which net a $1 million prize.
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