Thursday, August 24, 2017

The second largest jackpot in Powerball history has a winner

The Washington Post reports:
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.

Powerball announced that a single ticket sold at a convenience store in Watertown, Mass., was the winner of Wednesday night’s $758.7 million jackpot, according to the Powerball website. It was the second largest lottery prize in United States history, according to the Associated Press.

The winning numbers were 6, 7, 16, 23 and 26, and the final number, called the Powerball number, was 4.

The ticket was purchased at the Handy Variety convenience store in Watertown, about nine miles west of Boston, the AP reported. The name of the winner has not yet been released.
They sure have a lot of winning tickets in Massachusetts. Pretty amazing.