Record $580 million Powerball jackpot won by 2 tickets!!!
Winning Powerball lottery tickets sold in Arizona, Missouri
Final jackpot total of $580 million will be split 2 ways
How would you react if you won?
By Todd Northrop
The largest Powerball lottery jackpot the world has ever seen has been won Wednesday night by two tickets sold in Arizona and Missouri.
The stage was set for the massive prize early Sunday morning, when lottery officials set the new Powerball lottery jackpot at an estimated $425 million. Over the next few days, extremely high demand for Powerball tickets prompted officials to raise the jackpot two more times before the Wednesday drawing — and by the time all the sales were totalled at draw time, the jackpot stood at a faint-inducing $579.9 million.
The Powerball winning numbers for Wednesday, November 28, 2012, were 5, 16, 22, 23, and 29, with Powerball number 6.
Wednesday's Powerball jackpot was the accumulation of 15 consecutive drawings without a grand prize winner over a nearly two-month stretch. The jackpot run-up started as a $40 million grand prize on Oct. 6, 2012.