California ticket wins $700M Powerball jackpot, 7th largest ever

After 40 drawings without a large Powerball winner, a azygous summons sold successful California matched each six numbers drawn Monday and was the fortunate victor of the astir $700 cardinal jackpot prize, officials said.

Late Monday night, California lottery officials announced that a summons sold astatine an Albertsons successful Morro Bay won $699.8 million.

Morro Bay, a coastal metropolis of astir 10,000 residents, is located astir 215 miles northbound of Los Angeles.

The winning numbers drawn Monday nighttime were 12, 22, 54, 66 and 69. The Powerball was 15.

Thanks to astir four months of futility and last summons sales, the Powerball jackpot has climbed to $699.8 million, making it the seventh largest successful U.S. lottery history. No 1 has won the game’s expansive prize since June 5.

The was the archetypal jackpot won connected a Monday nighttime since Aug. 23, erstwhile the crippled launched a 3rd play drawing, officials said.

The victor volition beryllium capable to take betwixt the annuity enactment paid implicit 29 years oregon the currency enactment of $496 million. Both prize options are taxable to taxes.

There were 5 $1 million-winning tickets sold; 2 successful Massachusetts and 1 each successful Virginia, Florida and Arizona.

The 41st drafting acceptable a record, topping the erstwhile people of 36 drawings that ended successful January 2021. The longer the crippled goes without a expansive prize winner, the larger the payout volition grow.

The jackpot drought is by design, arsenic the game’s agelong likelihood of 292.2 cardinal to 1 are intended to make monolithic prizes that gully much players.

Lottery officials person noted that contempt the agelong hold for a winning jackpot ticket, plentifulness of radical person won smaller prizes, including 2.8 cardinal players successful Saturday’s drafting alone. Those winnings ranged from $1 cardinal to $4.

Powerball is played successful 45 states positive Washington, D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

Primm and northwest Arizona are the closest locations to Las Vegas to acquisition lottery tickets.

— The Review-Journal contributed to this report.