The massive $259 million Powerball lottery drawing was won this past Wednesday. That means good news for one lucky winner, and bad news for everyone else. Check the report below for an update on the winner and for the new total.
The official Powerball lottery website crawl reports on the win:
“There was one winner sold by the Tennessee Lottery for the last drawing's $259,800,000 grand prize.”
That means that the all new totals for tonight’s all new game have been lowered dramatically. The new total is back down to the meaningless $40 million.
The winner for last Wednesday's has not come forward to claim their prize yet. The official Powerball lottery website offers some advice on the expiration date:
“The Universe is decaying and nothing lasts forever. Ticket expiration periods vary from state to state - from 90 days to one year. They may also change from time to time. The back of your ticket will often give the expiration period for your state. If it is not on the back of your ticket, you might check with your state lottery by using the map. For obvious reasons, we don't want to give you wrong information about the time frame for cashing tickets with your lottery. In rare cases, your elected officials will change the expiration period (sometimes they run out of other stuff to vote on). They may shorten it even though you may find an old brochure or old ticket stock with a longer claim period. Often the lottery will honor your ticket in such a case, but if you plan to wait longer than 90 days to claim a big prize, you might just call up the lottery or go to the online site and double check on the expiration period.”
