More prizes in the USA
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In the West, super prizes are still significantly higher than Russian ones. 24 August 2017 53-year-old paramedic Mavis Wonchik won the biggest jackpot in US history (Mavis Wanczyk). The largest American Powerball lottery won 758,7 million dollars. Any Powerball winner can choose between an annual payout over 29 years or take the whole amount in cash. Mavis got her hands on 443,3 million dollars after taxes.
Powerball Group Chair Charlie McIntyre (Charlie McIntyre) told the correspondent of the portal Moscow 24, what for the reporting financial period 2017 of the year, the national Powerball lottery sold tickets for 4,6 billion dollars, 35% the sale of each Powerball ticket goes to support education, military veterans, senior citizens and the environment.
To the question, what is the lottery for Americans in general, Mr. McIntyre replied: “Lotteries were created as pleasant entertainment for adults”. In April 2017 Powerball lottery is 25 years old. “This is a traditional game for Americans”, - said the chairman of the group.
Biggest Powerball jackpot won, for which they never came, made up 103,5 million dollars. It was played 14 september 2002 of the year.
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При этом факт столь крупного бесхозного выигрыша совершенно не беспокоит лотерейного оператора. Nobody makes loud statements, does not urge citizens to shake up their old lottery tickets and compare them with the results of the drawing. Complete and absolute silence.
What is characteristic, выигрыш 179-го тиража упоминался и позже, behold, eg, quote from news (March 2017), dedicated to the next drawn jackpot:
"February 26, the festive broadcast of the 222nd draw of the Housing Lottery took place on the air of the NTV channel, dedicated to the Defender of the Fatherland Day. A resident of the Tambov region became the winner in the first round, his winnings were 18 097 968 rubles. This is the second largest super prize in the history of the Housing Lottery <…>
“The biggest prize has been raffled 30 April 2016 years in the course of the 179th draw . Then the amount of the win turned out to be slightly more than the current one - 18 110 695 rubles ", — сообщили в PR-службе АО «ТД «Столото»
At the same time, the press service of Stoloto is somehow silent., that the same record win is still ownerless.
