Winning ticket for record $590.5mil Powerball lottery sold in Florida

A single winning ticket for a record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot
worth US$590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late on
Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won one of the
largest jackpots in U.S. history.
The winning numbers from
Saturday night's drawing were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball
number of 11. The odds of winning were put at 1 in 175 million.
The winning ticket was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, a suburb of Tampa, according to the Florida Lottery.
The
winner or winners had not come forward as of Sunday morning, said
Connie Barnes, a Florida Lottery spokeswoman. The winning ticket
holder's name will become part of the public record because a check
will be made out to the winner, but that person or persons need not
appear in public to acknowledge the prize, Barnes said.
The
grand prize, accumulated after two months of drawings, surpassed the
previous record Powerball payoff of $587.5 million set in November 2012.
The
largest jackpot in U.S. history stands at $656 million, won in the Mega
Millions lottery of March 2012. That prize was split between winners in
Maryland, Kansas and Illinois.
The Multi-State Lottery
Association, based in Iowa, announced the Powerball results in a brief
message on its website, saying, "There was one winner sold by the
Florida Lottery for the last drawing's $590,500,000 grand prize."
The
extremely long odds of winning did not deter people from buying tickets
at staggering rates. California was selling $1 million in tickets every
hour on Saturday, said Donna Cordova, a spokeswoman for the California
Lottery, which has only been selling Powerball tickets since April 8.
The $2 tickets allow players to pick five numbers from 1 to 59, and a Powerball number from 1 to 35. - Reuters