Mineweaster was one particular of 5 finalists in contention for the grand prize before he was randomly chosen as the winner.
It also was the initial Powerball jackpot win in the new Monday draw, which launched Aug. 23.
Wednesday night's drawing was a single of the biggest in the history of the Powerball game, but didn’t rank among the Prime ten biggest in U.S. lottery history.
Considering the fact that Powerball launched in Florida in January 2009, the Florida Lottery has had a lot more than 94.1 million winning tickets totaling extra than $2.4 billion in prizes, which includes 13 jackpot winners.
Players can also pick the Energy Play, which can multiply any non-jackpot winnings.