A few people in Florida woke up millionaires Thursday after matching the winning Powerball numbers in Wednesday night’s multi-state drawing.
A ticket sold at a 7-Eleven in Bonita Springs, Fla., south of Fort Myers, hit all six numbers and is worth a whopping $396.9 million.
The big winner has not yet come forward.
Whomever it is will have the option to get a one-time cash payment of $274.6 million, after taxes, or annual payments dividing up the money, according to reports.
Three other lucky winners matched five numbers but not the Powerball. Those tickets are worth $1 million each and were sold in Florida, Ohio and Virginia, according to lottery officials.
The winning numbers are 9, 12, 15, 31, 60, and the Powerball is 2.
Powerball was launched in 1992, and tickets are sold in 44 states, including Georgia.
Drawings are held every Wednesday and Saturday.
As large as Wednesday’s prize is, $396 million is a lot less than the biggest Powerball jackpot ever, which was $1.5 billion on Jan. 13, 2016, when three winning tickets were sold in three states.
Wednesday's was the 18th-highest Powerball jackpot, according to reports.
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