Powerball: They don’t take the prize and the pot increases to $ 640 million

This morning he did not wake up a new millionaire in Puerto Rico, but there is still a chance that this will be the case next Saturday when it will be known if a lucky winner took the new $ 640 million Powerball pot.

The award is the fifth largest in its history and the largest in nearly two years. The sum increased after last night no one took home the $ 550 million prize

In last night’s draw, the five winning numbers were 4-19-23-25-49; while, the number of the Powerball was the 14.

“Jackpot winners can select their prize, either as an annuity, or as a single global cash payment. If the annuity option is selected, the winner is guaranteed 30 graduated payments over of 29. The annual payments increase by 5% until the 30th and final payment. The sum of the 30 payments is equal to the value of the annuity, “explains the official site of the draw.

Puerto Rico has several Powerball winners, one of them in February 2015 that was sold to Ponce Shell of Vedat Laurel. This prize of $ 564.1 it was split with two North Carolina and Texas winners and was the first Powerball prize sold outside the continental United States. The other prize that fell on the island was $ 50 million in April of that year and was sold to Sabana Gran.