Someone won the $448 million jackpot in the US

US lottery officials said at least one ticket with all the numbers for the $448.7 million Powerball jackpot drawn on the evening of June 10 (US time) has been sold.

A Powerball lottery ticket sold on February 22 in New York. The jackpot was $435.3 million at that time - Photo: Reuters

According to Reuters news agency, the Powerball jackpot this time has reached 448.7 million USD - among the 10 highest jackpots in the US.

The winning numbers of the lucky numbers announced at 11pm in the US are: 20-26-32-38-58; Powerball number: 03.

The lucky ticket was sold in Sun City, California. It is not yet known if any other states have won the grand prize.

After 19 draws without a winner, the Powerball jackpot has grown to nearly half a billion dollars. This is also the 7th largest prize in the history of the US Powerball lottery.

No one has won the jackpot since April 1, when a player in Arizona took home about $60 million.

The $156.2 million jackpot drawn on March 22 has yet to be claimed, even though the lucky ticket has been sold.

On February 22, a person in Indiana won a jackpot of up to $435.3 million. The winner chose to receive a lump sum of cash, a total of $263.5 million before taxes.

Powerball's largest jackpot was $1.6 billion in a January 2016 drawing. Three winning tickets were sold in Florida, California and Tennessee.

Some things to know about the Powerball lottery:

- Each lottery ticket costs $2. Tickets can be purchased at any store before 9:45 p.m.

- The draw starts at 22:59 and is reported live.

- The first 5 numbers (white balls) are drawn from a bin of 69 balls; one Powerball number (red ball) is drawn from another bin of 26 balls.

In any order, if the ticket has all 5 regular numbers (white balls) and the Powerball number (red balls), the owner of that ticket wins the special prize (Jackpot). There are also 8 other minor prizes in each drawing.

- If the player does not have a specific number sequence they want to choose, they have the “easy pick” option of asking the machine to choose for them.

- 44 states and 3 regions across the United States participate in the Powerball tournament.

- If you pay an additional $1 for each ticket (called Power Play), you have the chance to receive x2, x3, x4, x5 prizes below the Jackpot prize. In this mode, if you hit all 5 white balls, except the red ball, the prize increases from $1 million to $2 million (probability 1/11,688,053)

- The probability of winning the Jackpot is 1/292,201,338 (for easy visualization, the probability of a person being struck by lightning is 1/2,000,000).

According to tuoitre.vn