Will we ever know who won the record-setting $747M Powerball jackpot in Washington?

(NEXSTAR) – Inside every week of one another, the winners of two of the most important lottery prizes in U.S. historical past claimed their payouts. First, it was the California winner of the largest-ever prize, a $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot received in November. Then on Wednesday, it was the nameless winner of a $1.35 billion Mega Tens of millions jackpot received by a ticket bought in Maine final month.

Now, there’s only one record-setting lottery prize received in the previous few months that continues to be unclaimed.

Since final summer season, the U.S. has seen 4 record-setting lottery jackpots – a $1.337 billion Mega Tens of millions jackpot from Illinois in July, the $2.04 billion Powerball win in November, the $1.35 billion Mega Tens of millions jackpot final month, and a $747 million jackpot received by a ticket in Washington state earlier this month.

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Lottery officers have but to announce a winner for the most recent jackpot.

Whether it is ever claimed – a winner has 180 days to come back ahead in Washington, which means they nonetheless have roughly 160 days but – we may know the identify of the winner.

As a result of the lottery is a state company, its paperwork are topic to the Public Data Act, which may reveal the identify of the winner, even when a legally shaped entity (like a belief) claims the prize.

Based on state regulation, the identify and metropolis of the winner of a Mega Tens of millions jackpot prize, or the second-tier prize, is introduced at a information convention or in a press launch. The winner can also be requested to take part within the information convention.

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Earlier this month, we discovered the identify of the $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot winner because of California guidelines which don’t let a winner stay nameless. Disclosure legal guidelines require the state’s lottery to share the winner’s full identify and the place they bought the ticket, however the winner doesn’t should be current on the press convention (the winner of this jackpot opted in opposition to showing publicly).

The winners of the jackpots received in Maine and Illinois, nevertheless, did get to stay nameless.

Each states are among the many few that may permit winners to have their names withheld in all or some circumstances. Should you win any lottery video games, make sure you test along with your jurisdiction’s lottery workplace to find out whether or not you possibly can stay nameless.

If the Powerball jackpot in Washington had been to stay unclaimed, collaborating lotteries will obtain their portion of the prize’s money worth constructed by their ticket gross sales, in accordance with the sport’s web site. Jurisdictions then distribute the funds based mostly on native guidelines or legal guidelines.