Powerball tickets worth $1M and $50K sold in South Carolina

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC/AP) – South Carolina Schooling Lottery officers say three tickets offered within the state for Monday’s Powerball drawing nonetheless delivered massive winnings.

Whereas a single ticket offered in California received the world-record Powerball jackpot price $2.04 billion, a ticket price $1 million was bought at a Fort Mill 7 Eleven retailer. That ticket holder matched the primary 5 white ball numbers to win.

In the meantime, two gamers received $50,000 every by matching 4 of the white ball numbers and the purple Powerball quantity. These successful tickets had been offered on the Loves Journey Cease in Fort Mill and the three Manner Meals Mart in Aiken, lottery spokesperson Holli Armstrong stated.

The successful Powerball numbers for Monday had been 10, 33, 41, 47, 56 and the Powerball was 10.

The winners have 180 days from the date of the drawing to say their prize.

SC lottery didn’t trigger delay in Monday night time’s drawing

Whereas Powerball officers received’t determine the lottery that compelled the delay of Monday’s report Powerball drawing, don’t blame the Palmetto State for the issue.

The Multi-State Lottery Affiliation stated Monday night time’s scheduled drawing was delayed by practically 10 hours till Tuesday as a result of a collaborating lottery had points processing gross sales.

The issues in holding a drawing Monday night time had been blamed on one collaborating lottery’s incapability to course of its gross sales knowledge.

Powerball officers launched an announcement that learn partially:

Powerball has been in communication with the lottery all through the night time as it really works to resolve the problem. The delay is unlucky as the opposite 47 lotteries had been in a position to full the required safety procedures in a well timed vogue.

Armstrong confirmed Tuesday morning that theirs was not the lottery inflicting the delay.

“The South Carolina Schooling Lottery accomplished the mandatory protocols on time,” she stated.

After the lottery, which wasn’t recognized, accomplished its pre-draw procedures, the drawing was in a position to go forward.

The lottery confirmed Tuesday afternoon {that a} successful ticket was offered in Altadena, California, an unincorporated neighborhood within the foothills northeast of Los Angeles.

The jackpot was by far the biggest lottery prize ever received, topping the earlier report $1.586 billion prize received by three Powerball ticketholders in 2016. The highest prize was initially reported as an estimated $1.9 billion on Monday, however the prize was elevated to $2.04 billion Tuesday morning after up to date calculations.

The money choice for that grand prize was estimated to be slightly below a fair billion at $997.6 million.

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