Powerball’s biggest winner is only 24 years old and he plans to stay a millionaire for the rest of his life.

It became the second largest jackpot in the entire history of the US Powerball and it was all scooped by a single winner, Manuel Franco from Wisconsin. While it was initially announced at $750 million, the jackpot amount was increased due to massive ticket sales. The US Powerball jackpot jumped to a whopping $768.4 million on March 27 th, 2019. It was the 4th time in history that a Powerball ticket scooped a jackpot over $1 Billion! It was also the first time ever that Powerball saw 2 consecutive Powerball jackpots being won as they exceeded the billion-dollar threshold. $1.765 BILLION – October 11 th, 2023Īs Powerball jackpots kept on growing bigger and bigger, a lucky player scooped $1.765 Billion on October 11, 2023. This Powerball winner who becomes the biggest Powerball winner of all time, but also the biggest lottery winner in the world! Indeed, he can boast of having won a record jackpot! Edwin Castro, the name of this lucky winner, came to claim his winnings on February 14, 2023, more than 3 months after winning this extraordinary jackpot! 2. It took 41 draws for the Powerball jackpot to reach this amount and the winning numbers were: 10-33-41-47-56/10. While it was initially announced at $1.9 billion, the jackpot of Novemwas actually raised to $2.04 billion! The draw was also slightly delayed due to one of the participating lottery needing more time to sort tickets out.

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