At least three winning tickets were sold for Wednesday’s world record Powerball jackpot. One of the winners was sold at a 7-Eleven in Chino Hills, California. Another was sold in Munford, Tennessee, near Memphis. The third was sold in Florida.
The winners will share in the world record $1.5 billion jackpot.
The winning numbers were 4-8-19-27-34 and Powerball 10. Anyone with just a matching Powerball number gets four dollars. More matching numbers make you eligible for prizes of $7, $100, $50,000 or $1 million.
Officials of the Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs the Powerball game, said they expected more than 85 percent of the possible number combinations would have been bought for the drawing. The odds of winning were 1 in 292.2 million. Powerball players have spent an estimated $2.6 billion on tickets since the last jackpot was claimed in November.