3 Powerball Winners for Nearly $1.6 Billion Record Jackpot on Wednesday, Jan. 13

The winning Powerball numbers are 08 - 27 - 34 - 04 - 19. The Powerball is 10, and three winning tickets share in the grand prize of almost $1.6 billion in the Jan. 13 drawing.

A winning ticket was sold in Chino Hills, California, according to California lottery officials. California is the only state that doesn’t tax lottery winnings. As of early Thursday morning, winning tickets were confirmed in Tennessee and Melbourne Beach, Florida, according to Powerball officials.

Two Illinoisans won $1 million, according to the lottery, and more than 800,000 walked away with some cash, ranging from the $4 and $7 tickets to the $50,000 prizes.

This is the largest, single-prize lottery jackpot in world history.

California lottery officials tweeted the news almost immediately: “We have a winner in California! A jackpot-winning ticket was sold in Chino Hills. We’re still awaiting results from other states.”

The West Coast ticket was sold at a 7-Eleven store, 4092 Chino Hills Parkway. The city of Chino Hills, home to 74,000 people, is located in San Bernardino County, about 30 miles east of Los Angeles. According to U.S. Census Bureau, the median household income in Chino Hills is $96,497.

A crowd immediately flocked to the 7-Eleven and gathered outside the store. Folks inside the store applauded the assistant manager who sold the winning ticket.

The San Bernardino Sun reports that this is the assistant manager who sold that winning ticket at the 7-Eleven. He looks very happy.

As staggering as the jackpot is, the odds of being the one to take home the jackpot, of course, are slim: 1 in 292,201,338. Your chances of being struck by lightning in any given year are 1 in 700,000. Your odds of being wounded or killed by a firearm are 1 in 325.

In fact, you have a much better chance of dating a supermodel. And dying on a bicycle.

Your odds of dying on a bicycle, actually, are 1 in 4,472 (but those odds improve dramatically if you stay off bicycles). Your odds of drowning in the bathtub are 1 in 9,377. Your odds of dating a supermodel? 1 in 88,000. Odds of being bitten by a shark? 1 in 6,000,000.

• How Late Can You Buy Powerball Tickets in Illinois?

As with Saturday’s drawing, people were buying tickets late into the evening.

About 75 percent of the possible number combinations were covered for Saturday’s drawing. With the growing interest, more possible number combinations will likely be covered for Wednesday’s drawing. Officials expect that enough tickets will be sold to cover about 80 percent by Wednesday.

About 95 percent of Powerball tickets have computer-generated numbers.

Data curated by FindTheData

WHAT TIME IS THE POWERBALL DRAWING IN ILLINOIS?

• Drawings are at 9:59 PM (CT) every Wednesday and Saturday

QUICK POWERBALL FACTS

• Current jackpot at $1.5 billion; cash value of $930 million
• Jackpots start at $40 million
• Plays cost $2 each
• Overall odds of winning the jackpot 1:292,201,338

In 2014, the average spend on lottery tickets in Illinois was $217.94 per person. (South Dakota residents spent the most at $751.34 per person.)

Illinois residents, 18 and over, can play Powerball and all of the Illinois Lottery’s draw-based games by using the Illinois Lottery’s mobile app. The free app (the first of its kind in the United States) is available for download on iOS and Android devices and offers any Illinois adult the chance to purchase lottery tickets on their smartphone.

Players can also purchase their tickets online at illinoislottery.com or at nearly 8,000 retailers statewide.

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CNN explains the tax implications of winning the big prize:

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

Then there are local taxes. Of the 44 U.S. states that participate in Powerball, all but a handful will take an additional cut of the money, according to lottery statistics site USA Mega.