One winner won $2,040 million from the Powerball lottery, the largest jackpot in history.

A person who bought a ticket Powerball He won a record jackpot in California $2.04 billion No one has hit the biggest jackpot in history for more than three months.

The winning numbers drawn Tuesday morning at the Florida Lottery drawing studio in Tallahassee were: The white balls were 10, 33, 41, 47 and 56 and the red powerball was 10.

Jackpot ticket sold Joe’s Service Center in Altadena, northeast of Los Angeles. A voicemail left for Joe’s service center was not immediately returned.

The jackpot is the largest lottery jackpot ever won, beating the previous record of $1.586 billion won by three Powerball ticket holders in 2016.

The Multi-State Lottery Association ran into problems with Monday night’s scheduled lottery sales, pushing it back nearly 10 hours to Tuesday.

The jackpot was initially estimated at $1.9 billion on Monday, but the jackpot was increased to $2.04 billion on Tuesday morning after updated calculations.

The jackpot is high $400 million larger than the previous record jackpot. Only four previous jackpots have topped $1 billion, but none come close to the current jackpot, which started at $20 million on Aug. 6 and has gotten bigger and bigger in three months without a win. No one has won the jackpot since August 3rd.

Problems with running Monday night’s draw were attributed to participating lotteries’ inability to process sales data.

“Powerball requires that 48 participating lotteries Submit your sales and game data before the winning numbers are selected. Once Powerball receives the pending submission, the drawing may proceed,” the Multi-State Lottery Association said in a statement.

That was nearly three hours after the scheduled draw as of Monday at 10:59 p.m. EST, the association said. Associated Press: “It is against our policy to name a lottery that suffers a delay.” Later Tuesday morning, the association said in a new statement that Powerball was “working to resolve the issue as it contacted the lottery overnight.”

Terry Rich, a former director of the Iowa Lottery who was on the Powerball board, said the delay could be caused by the two-part verification system for ticket sales, which uses a third-party vendor to make sure everything is in order. game. Numbers are drawn.

“Each state has to go through a dual process to verify that all sales and dollars match before the Multi-State Lottery Association,” said Rich, who led the Iowa Lottery for 10 years and was the lottery’s president. North American Lottery Association. “It’s a state-by-state process, dissecting the whole process, and it’s been very effective.”

Rich said state lotteries face similar problems several times a year, but the delays usually don’t attract much attention because the potential jackpots are much smaller than what was available this week.

A recorded video of the winning numbers and drawing was posted on the Powerball YouTube channel.

The $2.04 billion prize will be paid annually for 29 years to the winner who chooses an annuity. Almost all winners pick up $997.6 million worth of cash.

The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.

The game is played in 45 states, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

With AP information

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