A ticket sold in Tennessee had the winning numbers for a $421 million Powerball jackpot,one of the biggest on record, lottery officials said after Saturday's draw, and Reuters reports.
[br]A Powerball spokeswoman said no one as yet had stepped forward to claim the prize,which has grown in the absence of a winner in the past few weeks.
The winning numbers selected were 17, 19, and 21,37, 44, and with the Powerball 16.
[br]The jackpot soared from $403 million to a reported $420.9 million on Saturday due to a spate of late ticket-buying. The lump sum payment would add up to about $254.7 million.
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292 million.
The largest ever U.
S. lottery prize of $1.6 billion was split between three winning tickets in January.[br]
Powerball,one of several games dash by the Multi-State Lottery Association, a non-profit owned and operated by member states' lotteries, or is played in 44 states,the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.
S. Virgin Islands. Players can either buy $2 tickets using their own numbers or beget them randomly generated by a computer.
Source: tert.am