Did you purchase a price ticket in Portland for this weekend’s Powerball drawing? You may well be a billionaire now.Oregon Lottery officers simply introduced that the profitable price ticket for the fourth greatest jackpot in Powerball historical past used to be bought in Portland on April 6.The $1.326 billion jackpot used to be the 8th greatest lottery jackpot in the US and the biggest jackpot gained in Oregon. The profitable numbers have been 22, 27, 44, 52, 69 and Powerball 9. The Energy Play multiplier used to be 3X.“I need to congratulate the winner in this existence converting second. Nobody in Oregon has ever gained a prize in this scale, and it’s very thrilling for our group of workers and gamers,” mentioned Oregon Lottery Director Mike Wells.It can be some time ahead of we discover out who the fortunate winner is as a result of they’ve twelve months from the date of the drawing to say their jackpot. State regulation, with few exceptions, does now not permit winners to say the prize anonymously.Lottery officers don’t divulge the precise location that bought the profitable price ticket till the prize has been claimed, however they did inform The Oregonian/OregonLive that it used to be bought within the 97218 ZIP code, which contains Portland World Airport and the Cully community.The former file lottery win in Oregon used to be a $340 million Powerball jackpot in 2005.Lots of the million-dollar lottery winners in Oregon from the closing yr have been taking part in Megabucks. They come with:David Schultze, a 68-year-old retiree from Milwaukie gained the $8.4 million Megabucks jackpot on Jan. 24, 2024.John Exley, a 60-year-old from North Bonneville, Washington, gained $1 million taking part in Keno in Oregon Town on Dec. 23, 2023.Mill Town’s Thomas Willard, 77, gained $1 million taking part in Powerball within the Oct. 9, 2023, drawing.Carl Meinig, 80, of Portland gained a $3.3 million Megabucks jackpot on Aug. 2, 2023.Ray Jones, 59, of Lake Oswego gained a $8.2 million Megabucks jackpot on June 7, 2023.In a press unlock in regards to the profitable Megabucks price ticket in January, Oregon Lottery mentioned that the state has earned greater than $15.5 billion for financial building, training, state parks, veteran services and products and watershed improvements from lottery video games since 1985.Mims Copeland is a social media manufacturer and writes about trending subjects for The Oregonian/OregonLive. Achieve her at mcopeland@oregonian.com
