Someone in Washington state overcame steep odds Monday evening, Feb. 6, 2023, to win an estimated $747 million Powerball jackpot. Lottery officers didn’t instantly make an announcement of a winner.

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Someone in Washington state overcame steep odds Monday evening, Feb. 6, 2023, to win an estimated $747 million Powerball jackpot. Lottery officers didn’t instantly make an announcement of a winner.

Keith Srakocic/AP

DES MOINES, Iowa — Someone in Washington state overcame steep odds Monday evening to win an estimated $747 million Powerball jackpot.

The profitable numbers had been 05, 11, 22, 23, 69 and the Powerball 07.

Lottery officers mentioned in an announcement early Tuesday {that a} single ticket matched all six numbers and was value $754.6 million.

The full jackpot is for a winner choosing an annuity distributed in a single instant however partial payout adopted by extra funds over 29 years that enhance by 5% yearly. The winner can also go for a one-time money fee of $407.2 million.

Both prizes accessible are the quantities earlier than taxes, Powerball mentioned.

The lottery sport’s web site reveals the jackpot for the subsequent drawing on Thursday has dropped to $20 million.

Monday evening’s win was the primary Powerball jackpot win since Nov. 19, 2022. That winless streak allowed the prize to develop bigger and bigger till it stood because the ninth-largest in U.S. historical past.

Higher rates of interest have allowed annuity funds to extend in contrast with earlier jackpots, when charges had been decrease. Most winners desire the instant money prize.

The sport’s abysmal odds of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to construct huge prizes drawing extra gamers. That technique actually has labored not too long ago, as somebody in Maine won a $1.35 billion Mega Millions prize in January and a California player hit a record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot final November. No one has claimed both of these prizes.

Powerball is performed in 45 states, in addition to Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.