And the winner is….Mavis Wanczyk.
Wanczyk, 53, is the winner of the largest single lottery jackpot ever in North America, the $758.7 million grand prize in Wednesday’s Power Ball.
The winning ticket with numbers 6, 7, 16, 23, 26, and Powerball number 4, was purchased at the Pride Station & Store in Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Wanczyk said she discovered she had won soon after she left work at Mercy Medical Center, when a co-worker looked at her ticket and told her she had won. She said she couldn’t believe it.
“I couldn’t drive anywhere. I couldn’t do anything,” she told reporters. She said her co-worker followed her home to make sure she was O.K.

Wanczyk, who has two adult children, said her big plan is to retire early, and she’s already called her boss and said, “I will not be coming back.” Asked what she planned to do to celebrate Thursday night, she responded, “I’m going to just hide in my bed.”
The owner of the store that sold the ticket, Bob Bolduc, told reporters that the winning ticket was bought at about 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

Store owner Bolduc said that he plans to donate the $50,000 commission he’ll collect for selling a jackpot winner, to local charities with a primary focus on education and children.

Related: Biggest lottery jackpots in U.S. history
Lottery officials initially reported that the winning ticket was sold at a different store in Watertown, Massachusetts, due to a transcription error by lottery staff early Thursday morning. The Watertown store sold another winning ticket worth $1 million, which had all five numbers except the Powerball correct.
Wanczyk won’t get the full jackpot — lottery winnings are taxed like income.

The IRS taxes the top income bracket 39.6%. The government will withhold 25% of that before the money ever gets to the winner, and the rest has to be paid at tax time.

But it’s not just Wanczyk who will cash in. There are 40 ticket holders who won $1 million or more by getting five numbers correct — without the Powerball. Secondary prizes can be as little as $4 for a ticket that only got the Powerball number correct. A total of $135 million in prize money will go to 9.4 million other ticket buyers who didn’t win the jackpot. But history suggests many of those buyers likely do not realize they won the smaller prizes and will never claim their winnings.

Two other Powerball jackpots have passed the $400 million mark so far in 2017. A $448 million prize was claimed in June, and a $435 million jackpot was won in February. Mega Millions had a $393 jackpot winner on Aug. 11.

The only prize that’s ever topped the $1 billion mark was claimed in January 2016 — a $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot that grew over several months and was split three ways. That jackpot’s winning tickets were sold in Tennessee, California and Florida.
Both Powerball and Mega Millions tickets are available in all but six states – Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nevada and Utah.

The odds have always been long for landing a Powerball jackpot. But it became even more difficult recently — thanks to a rule change in October 2015 that tweaked the odds.

Chances of picking all six winning numbers currently stand at about one in 292 million.

That means you are actually more likely to be killed by an asteroid (1 in 700,000), be struck by lightning while drowning (1 in 183 million) or give birth to quadruplets (1 in 729,000).

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Why would she not resign when she can buy the company from the owner and dash the owner again

$758m is too much now,why can't they make it $75m each with 10 winners,wealth will spread like that.
Wish she is my mum right now
If she was a Nigerian,this is how all her extended family members and all her village people will match to her house to congratulate her,even though they never gave a shit about her all this while

Wow

I can bet that the first thing she'll do is a self enhancement and facelift surgery. Thats always the first thing they do there once they hit the big bucks

More.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4820610/Mavis-Wanczyk-53-revealed-Powerball-winner.html

$758 mil?? omg.. .I'll quit my job, my house, my country and my financial woman

Kai!!! $758 million dollars!!!?? First things first!! I go first chop like 5k suya with 4 cold bottles of Gulder, then nah to dey buy all houses close to all my Ex-gfs their houses and turn it to poultry to torment them with smell, come buy '758' camry pencil light way i go dey use move around in convoy....................

God pls pick my call na

Who no go quit job before?

Damn

I've never won any kind of lottery in my life.

Go to work? She can buy that bitch and everybody innit. My friend way chop 275k from superior bet talk say him no wan learn mechanic again sef

Wen God remembered Zion, they were like them that dreamed.
God remember me oooo

Her chance is spend wisely

Heard this story on CNN immediately "i just weak" see bread


She just should just invest properly and ensure all finances are properly done.....She can't small poverty ever including her family

Cool

Can't believe I rejected that ticket. Well I have helped a less privileged

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJjHwDYTo4w

To he'll with that job, which stupid work do we expect her to continue? Make she even employ those employers.

BAbA ijebu things.

sunshineV:
Go to work? She can buy that bitch and everybody innit. My friend way chop 275k from superior bet talk say him no wan learn mechanic again sef

Did anybody observe this? : the owner of the store, where the ticket was purchased says he plans to donate the $50,000 commission to charity ".
This is why money easily go round,
but, here in Nigeria,
10percent will go for tithe,
20 percent for Thanksgiving,
20 percent for project and papas offering,
then the remaining 50 percent to buy a huge ride to announce to the world " we have made it "
Lol �

fhranciz:
Can't believe I rejected that ticket. Well I have helped a less privileged

U gan gan less privilege

Oboy see mony

I read it yesterday on yahoo. That line of her hidding in her bed makes me laugh.

See money

What a news! This changes everything forever for the better for her!! May we key into this blessing this morning Amen!!