UPDATE: Powerball ticket sold at NE Portland Plaid Pantry wins $1.3-billion jackpot
Published 2:00 pm Monday, April 8, 2024
- Powerball play slips are displayed in a convenience store on July 18, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Mario Tama/Getty Images/TNS)
SALEM — A ticket sold at a Plaid Pantry convenience store in northeast Portland matched all five numbers and the Powerball number in Saturday night’s drawing, officials announced Monday. The jackpot is worth $1.326 billion, ending a winless streak that had stretched more than three months.
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The lucky ticket was sold at the Plaid Pantry at 6060 NE Columbia Blvd. in Portland. That store will receive a bonus of $100,000 for selling the jackpot winner.
The jackpot has a cash value of $621 million if the winner chooses to take a lump sum rather than an annuity paid over 30 years, with an immediate payout followed by 29 annual installments. The prize is subject to federal taxes, while many states also tax lottery winnings.
The winning numbers drawn early Sunday morning were: 22, 27, 44, 52, 69 and the red Powerball 9.
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The Chaney and West families of Jacksonville won a $340 million Powerball jackpot on Oct. 19, 2005.
Oregon Lottery said it is working with a ticket-holder who came forward on Monday to claim the prize. The process involves security measures and vetting that will take time before a winner can be announced.
The winner has a year to come forward to claim their prize. Per state law, players in Oregon, with few exceptions, cannot remain anonymous. The last time a Powerball jackpot was won in the state was in 2018, when a Salem man won $150.4 million.
Plaid Pantry has sold other large Oregon Lottery jackpot prizes, including a $3.3 million Megabucks jackpot last summer.
“Plaid Pantry is thrilled to learn that one of our 104 Oregon stores sold the $1.3 billion dollar Powerball ticket,” Plaid Pantry President and CEO Jonathan Polonsky said Monday. “This store is one of our newest and most loved stores. Proceeds from the Oregon Lottery fund many programs that benefit everyone in the state, and we’ve been a proud partner with the Oregon Lottery since the very beginning. Congratulations to our lucky customer from our over 700 Plaid associates!”
Approximately a third of sales from the game will be returned to state beneficiaries to support economic development, education, veteran services, state parks and more, Oregon Lottery officials said Sunday.
Until the latest drawing, no one had won Powerball’s top prize since New Year’s Day, amounting to 41 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner, tying a streak set twice before in 2022 and 2021.
The $1.326 billion prize ranks as the eighth largest in U.S. lottery history. As the prizes grow, the drawings attract more ticket sales and the jackpots subsequently become harder to hit. The game’s long odds for the weekend drawing were 1 in 292.2 million.
Saturday night’s scheduled drawing was held up and took place in the Florida Lottery studio just before 2:30 a.m. Sunday to enable one of the organizers to complete required procedures before the scheduled time of 10:59 p.m., Powerball said in a statement.
Powerball is played in 45 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.