Someone has won the Powerball jackpot of over $500 million.

The Powerball lottery results in California (USA) on March 29th revealed a winner of the $527 million jackpot.

According to the New York Post , this is only the second time this year that the Powerball lottery has found a jackpot winner. The winning numbers, announced in the March 29th drawing, were the five white numbers 7-11-21-53-61 and the red number (Powerball) 2.

The identity of the winner has not yet been determined. The winner could choose to receive the $527 million in 30 installments, or receive a lump sum of $243.8 million. The lucky winner chose the correct numbers, with odds of winning being 1 in 292.2 million.

A Powerball lottery ticket at a store in New York City, USA.

Previously, this year's Powerball jackpot went to Abbas Shafii, who won over $328 million in the Oregon drawing on January 18th. He chose to receive the money in a lump sum and took home over $146 million.

Last year, the lottery found a jackpot winner nine times. A Laotian man named Cheng "Charlie" Saephan won the biggest prize last year, hitting a jackpot of over $1.3 billion in April 2024, which was also the fourth largest jackpot in Powerball history.

The largest Powerball jackpot in history, worth approximately $2 billion, was won by Edwin Castro in California in November 2022. He chose to receive a lump sum of $997 million. Powerball tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.

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