Post Nation Powerball says one ticket holder won the $570 million jackpot, one of the largest in history

Wouldn't this be nice to take up too?!

One Powerball ticket holder in New Hampshire is the winner of the $570 million jackpot prize, one of the largest in the multistate lottery’s history.The winning numbers, drawn Saturday night, were 12, 29, 30, 33, 61 and 26. The owner of the winning ticket can choose the annuity option, in which payments are made over 30 years, with each annual payment increasing over time. Most, however, choose the cash option. In this case, take-home cash would be $358.5 million.More than 4 million tickets, including the jackpot winner, won prizes from Saturday’s drawing.Last year, a woman from Chicopee, Mass., won the $758 million Powerball jackpot and received a lump-sum payment of $480 million after choosing the cash option. In 2016, three winners from California, Florida and Tennessee split a jackpot prize of nearly $1.6 billion.The game started as Lotto America in the late 1980s and was changed and renamed Powerball in the early 1990s. It’s one of two big jackpot games played in 44 states, the District of Columbia  and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The other one, Mega Millions, found a winner Friday. A single Mega Millions ticket holder in Florida won the $450 million jackpot prize, the fourth-biggest in the multistate lottery’s 15-year-old history. The winning ticket was sold at a 7-Eleven in Port Richey, a Gulf Coast town northwest of Tampa, according to Florida Lottery.The winning Mega Millions numbers, drawn Friday night, were 28, 30, 39, 59, 70 and 10. Payments under the annuity option, with each annual payment 5 percent bigger than the previous one, would be made over 29 years. The one-time cash payment would yield $281 million.

Now a  bad payday!! One can dream....