Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing finally discovered a winner — two, in fact — for its $632.six million jackpot after three months of rollovers.
A player who buys a $2 ticket has about a 1 in 11,688,053 likelihood to match 5 numbers and win at least $1 million, though the odds are 913,129 to 1 of winning the third prize of at least $50,000.
There was no grand prize winner on Wednesday, but there was a ticket sold in Arizona that matched the initially five white balls, and minus the red Powerball, for the game's second prize of $1 million.
5 players matched all 5 numbers but missed the Powerball for a $1 million prize, with winning tickets sold in California, Florida, Indiana, New York and Wisconsin.
Quickly after, Jackson realized he had really matched all six numbers to win the grand prize.
The Catawba Indian Nation is proceeding with the building of a substantial casino resort just to the west of Charlotte but has not but revealed its strategy for sports betting.
If the Wisconsin winner decides to take the cash quantity — soon after federal taxes of $54 million and state taxes of $17.2 million — their final take-household prize will be $153.9 million.
The arbitration will be carried out in the English language in accordance with the United States Arbitration Act.