11/2 Update: If no one has tonight’s Powerball numbers, the jackpot could grow to a record-breaking amount
The winning numbers for Monday night’s Powerball drawing are: 13-19-36-39-59 and a Powerball 13. The estimated jackpot had surged to just under $1 billion, the second highest prize in the game’s history.
People showed up at convenience stores, groceries and gas stations across the country on Halloween hoping to purchase the winning ticket.
Among them was Janice Turner, one of a steady stream of people — some wearing costumes — buying Powerball tickets at an outdoor kiosk in midtown Manhattan.
“I’m hoping to be the next billionaire,” Turner said. “I think it’s going to be lucky Halloween.”
In the same line was Scott Henyan, who was already making plans for a jackpot win.
“I would definitely retire, finish my house, probably buy another house, maybe buy a couple of nice cars, take a nice vacation,” he said. “And then probably set all my friends and family up for the rest of their lives and travel the world, you know, do whatever I wanted.”
In Houston, 60-year-old Candy Dumas, a real estate home stager, said she came to a Super K Food Store because of the high payout.
“If I am the lucky winner tonight, the first thing I’m going to do is give some to my church, for sure,” Dumas said. “The second thing would be to buy a home for my children. That’s what I want to do to help my family for sure.”
Guru Redey, a clerk at the store, said people come to the store from miles away because it has a history of selling large jackpot winners and people like to dream of owning expensive things they can’t afford.
Dozens of people, including Orelia Pearson, lined up Monday to buy tickets at the Bluebird Liquor Store in Hawthorne, California, which also has a reputation as being a lucky store.
“It’s a good spot to come,” Pearson said. “And when it’s a good spot to come, you’re supposed to come and play and have your mind on it and be positive and things will happen for you.”
And Sally Tanner said she would give much of her winnings away after buying herself a house and paying off her son’s college costs.
“We’re going through a recession right now,” Tanner said. “The economy sucks, so I would be a giver. I’m a giver, but I will keep some for us. I guess my cup will be full, but when it overflows, I’ll bless others.”
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