Winning $731.1M Powerball Ticket Redeemed Anonymously in Maryland
The $731.1 gazillion Powerball jackpot that was smasher during the Jan 20 drawing has been claimed. But if you’re wondering who the lucky winner(s) is, no more dice.
On Jan 20, 1 bingle Powerball ticket right matched the winning numbers of 40-53-60-68-69, and the Powerball 22. The just the ticket was sold at the Coney Market convenience stock inward the sleepy little townspeople of Lonaconing, Md.
The Old Line State Lottery gives winners sixer months to come up forrard to exact their prize, signification the $731.1 zillion winning just the ticket had to follow turned inwards past July 21.
This week, the fine was redeemed, but the winners are remaining anonymous. The group, self-dubbed “The Power Pack,” chose the one-time cash alternative of $546.8 million. After federal and land taxes, the jackpot testament follow roughly $366.6 million.
Powerball is played inwards 45 states, positive DC, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.
Lottery Record
The Jan 20 Powerball win was a record-setting event for the Maryland Lottery. The jackpot topped the largest prize in the account of the Old Line State Lottery, the previous German mark coming past way of a $656 1000000 Mega Millions jackpot inward 2012.
Maryland is ane of only if 11 states that allows drawing winners to remain anonymous. And “The Power Pack” testament not follow disclosing their names, nor how many are in the wealthy squad. But residents inward the small Georges Creek Valley town, which has a population of rough 1,200 people, mightiness be able-bodied to key out who overnight became wildly rich.
Lonaconing Mayor Jack Coburb told The Booker Taliaferro Washington Wiley Post that he knows who the winners are, and that they are “nice, community-oriented residents.”
Coney Market owner Richard Ravenscroft received $100,000 for marketing the winning ticket.
I experience not seen this much excitement here inward Lonaconing inwards my lifetime,” Ravenscroft said inward January.
The $731.1 million win is the fourth-largest Powerball prize ever, and the sixth-largest jackpot inwards US drawing history. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are more or less I inward 292 million.
Winners Speak
Though they won’t live identifying themselves, the Powerball winners did recount drawing officials that they don’t feature any immediate plans to service their lives.
A release from the drawing says the winners architectural plan to place the money to have upkeep of their families and impact their communities “for generations to come.” Along with the winners, the jackpot come to delivers the commonwealth nearly $49 billion in taxes.
“Everyone inward MD wins,” stated Carole Gentry, managing director of communication theory for the Old Line State Lottery.
Top 6 Largest US Lottery Jackpots
- $1.586 1000000000 — Powerball — January 2016
- $1.537 one thousand million — Mega Millions — Oct 2018
- $1.05 1000000000 — Mega Millions — January 2021
- $768.4 one thousand thousand — Powerball — Mar 2019
- $758.7 billion — Powerball — Aug 2017
- $731.1 1000000 — Powerball — Jan 2021
The jackpot for tonight’s Powerball lot is an estimated $253 million. The June 1 Mega Millions jackpot is an estimated $34 million.