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Tennessee Ticket Wins Entire $421 Million Powerball Jackpot

November 27, 2016 · 2:05am ET
November 26, 2016 · 11:05pm PT

A single ticket sold in Tennessee beat 292 million-to-1 odds to win a $421 million Powerball jackpot, the 11-largest on record, lottery officials said after the draw Saturday night.

The winning numbers were 17, 19, 21, 37, 44, with the Powerball 16.

A Powerball spokeswoman said no one had yet stepped forward to claim the prize, which soared to an annuity value of $420.9 million on Saturday because of a rush of late ticket-buying.

The winner can choose to accept the full jackpot in a series of annuity payments or take it all in a single lump sum now. The lump sum payment would add up to about $254.7 million, Powerball said. The largest Powerball prize ever, $1.6 billion, was divided among three winning tickets in January.

Powerball, one of several games run by the Multi-State Lottery Association, a nonprofit owned and operated by member states’ lotteries, is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Associated Press

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