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The winning Powerball jackpot ticket worth $1.76 billion, the game’s second-largest prize, was sold in California on Wednesday night.
The winning numbers were 22, 24, 40, 52, 64 and the red Powerball 10.
The life-changing ticket was sold at Midway Market & Liquors in Frazier Park, California, located 75 miles north of Los Angeles.
The new billionaire is believed to be a local Frazier Park resident who visits the store every day to “religiously” play the lottery.
“There are people who come in every day to buy their tickets, we know them by name and I’m sure someone will be yelling up and down,” Duke, the store’s night worker, told KCAL.
“They come every day to buy their tickets religiously and a lot of them say, ‘Oh, if I win, I’ll buy you a new truck,’ so where’s my truck? I’ll be waiting.”
This is the fifth time the Powerball grand prize has been won this year.
The life-changing ticket was sold at Midway Market & Liquors in Frazier Park, California, located 75 miles north of Los Angeles. Facebook / Midway Market and Liquor
The new jackpot winner could receive the estimated $1.76 billion jackpot in 30 incremental payments over 29 years or directly claim a cash prize of $774.1 million.
Arizona and Pennsylvania had one ticket for each game with the five white balls and an extra 2x Power Play bonus for a prize of $2 million.
Seven people (California (2), Florida (2), New York, Oklahoma and Virginia) won $1 million when they correctly guessed each of the white balls.
The odds of a ticket holder matching all five numbers plus the red Powerball are an astronomical 1 in 292,201,338.
The winning numbers were 22, 24, 40, 52, 64 and the red Powerball 10.Powerball
Following the results of Wednesday’s drawing, California has chosen the winner of the four largest Powerball drawings in the history of the game.
The last winning Powerball ticket was sold on July 19 for a grand prize of $1.08 billion to an unidentified individual in California.
But Edwin Castro, the Powerball jackpot winner in the game’s existence, remains the big winner as he enjoys his riches with lavish purchases.
Since winning, Castro has purchased three luxury homes in California after choosing the $997.6 million lump sum of the $2 billion jackpot.
The new billionaire is believed to be a local Frazier Park resident who visits the store every day to “religiously” play the lottery, a store worker told KCAL.KCAL.
He spent $25.5 million on a five-bedroom, seven-bathroom mansion in the Hollywood Hills and $4 million on a mansion in his hometown of Altadena.
Castro, who also purchased a $250,000 vintage Porsche, added to his real estate portfolio earlier this month when he purchased a $47 million mansion in Bel Air.
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