$425 Million Winning Powerball ticket sold in California

$425 million Powerball lottery ticket was sold at a gas station in Milpitas, California, however the winner and the buyer of the ticket hasn’t shown-up yet. The officials released the news on Wednesday that the jackpot Lottery ticket was sold.

Winning Powerball ticket, numbers were 1, 17, 35, 49, 54, and 34, which was listed on the Powerball's website. However the further details weren’t revealed about the winner was not available, except for the selling location, which was Dixon Landing Chevron gas station and they will also get a surprise amount of $1 million for selling the ticket.

The $425 million dollar winning amount is the sixth-largest in U.S. history and the fourth-largest for Powerball.  It was the no.1 prize for the draw, which is ideally drawn twice a week, however it had been rolled over and wasn’t having prize winner for 15 times since the last jackpot on Christmas Day. Since the last jackpot the lottery amount was mounting up, as there was no winner, it rolled forward for fifteen times and reached to whopping $400 million + figures, until Wednesday.

If the Winner of this mega prize cap goes to collect the huge ransom, he would be receiving around $227.8 million, the website revealed. The high rise of the lottery winning, increased because of the price hikes on the ticket since last two years and California is the most renowned U.S State, along with Washington D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands, followed by other 42 states, in playing the game. Generally the odds of winning the jackpot is one in 175 million, regardless of how many tickets a person buys.

Earlier biggest and top prize winners in Powerball, who bagged whopping amounts, are $590 million and the winning ticket was in May 2013 in Florida, before taxes. Followed by Powerball jackpot worth $448 million in August, which was a trio sharing tickets, in custody by a man from Monmouth Junction, N.J. and a group of 16 co-workers in Ocean County, N.J.

Other biggest lottery winner in the American history was a $648 million jackpot, by a delivery driver who shared this winnings with another winner in a Mega Millions lottery game in December and the ticket was purchased in a gift shop in San Jose, about 10 miles from Milpitas.

Powerball, which is coordinated by the Multi-State Lottery Association, is played in 43 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands, being some of the most popular among them. The drawings happen generally every Wednesday and Saturday.