$421 million Powerball ticket sold; 2 Pa. tickets worth $1 million
Someone just woke up in the Volunteer State a lot more wealthy.
One Powerball ticket sold in Tennessee has the winning numbers for Saturday night's $421 million jackpot, according to lottery officials.
Two tickets sold in Pennsylvania are worth $1 million.
The winning numbers selected were 17, 19, 21, 37, 44, with the Powerball 16.
The jackpot swelled to $421 million, one of the largest on record, thanks to a large number of last-minute buyers. The largest ever Powerball prize of $1.6 billion was split between three winning tickets back in January.
The winner, who has yet to come forward, can choose to accept the full jackpot in a series of annuity payments or take it all in a single lump sum now. Officials said the lump sum payment would add up to about $254.7 million.
There have been just six Powerball jackpot winners this year. The last winner was back in September, when a couple from Atlanta won a $246.8 million jackpot.
Back in May, a Trenton family said "divine intervention" led 70-year-old Pearlie Mae Smith to win a $429.8 million jackpot, the largest sold in New Jersey lottery history. Smith shared the winnings with her seven adult children, and tithed 10 percent of the jackpot to their Pentecostal church.
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292 million.