Historic amount in the US lottery: there is a winning ticket for 2.04 billion dollars

In the USA, they announced this evening (Tuesday) the winning ticket for the huge prize in the Powerball lottery, after three months in which no one correctly guessed all the numbers that came up in the lottery.

The winning ticket was purchased in California, and entitles the sender to an astronomical sum of $2.04 billion. This is the largest prize ever in the US lottery. The previous record was in 2016, when the first prize was 1.586 billion dollars.

The grand prize in the lottery reached this huge amount after 40 different lotteries, since the beginning of August, had not won the first prize. In the weekend The prize was 1.9 billion dollarsbut was not a winner.

The chance of winning the lottery in the US was 1 in 292.2 million. The winner will now be able to choose whether to receive the winning money (2.04 billion dollars as mentioned) in annual payments over 29 years, or to receive an amount of 997.6 million dollars at once. Usually the winners prefer the The second option.