The $2 lucky ticket was sold at a gas station store in Altadena.
The largest jackpot in the world in the amount of $2.04 billion was hit by a resident of the US state of California. The winner guessed all six numbers on the Powerball lottery ticket, which was 1 in 292.2 million, CNN reported yesterday.
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Lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Becker said “someone was holding a very important piece of paper” on the morning of November 8.
The $2 lucky ticket was sold at a gas station store in Altadena. The winning numbers are 10-33-41-47-56 and the Powerball is 10.
Prior to this, the largest Powerball jackpot was won in January 2016, when three winners shared a prize of $1.586 billion. Each received their share, which totaled $983.5 million.
And in July of this year, a resident of the US state of Illinois won $1.28 billion in the lottery. This is the third largest jackpot in US history.
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