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The lucky man purchased a Powerball ticket and chose the numbers 4, 25, 31, 52, and 59 for the Christmas drawing, which brought him luck.
Now he has a choice: he can either receive a lump sum payment of $834.9 million or spread the amount over 30 years in monthly payments.
According to Powerball, the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in more than 292 million.
The record win was set in 2022 when California resident Edwin Castro won $2.04 billion, which is also recorded in the Guinness World Records.
