A MA hospital worker has claimed the $758.7 million Powerball jackpot, and says she always thought winning the lottery was "a pipe dream".
A store in Chicopee, Massachusetts, sold the only ticket that won the jackpot.
But over the last 15 years, five winning ticket holders failed to claim their Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot prizes.
Wanczyk, a mother to a 31-year-old daughter and a 26-year-old son, said she was in shock.
Wanczyk, who has a 31-year-old daughter and 26-year-old son, said she previously been "OK" financially and had yet to work out how to spend her millions, other than paying off the auto she bought last year.
Asked how she'd celebrate Thursday night, Wanczyk said, "I'm going to go hide in my bed". The fact that only five went unclaimed means 98.7% collected their prize money. Matching four numbers plus the Powerball is normally worth $50,000 but the victor in this case purchased the Power Play option, which quintupled the prize to $250,000.
The Lottery says Powerball jackpot tickets were also sold in MA in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
"The first thing I want to do is just sit back and relax", said Ms Wanczyk, chewing gum.
We don't have much info about the victor of the $758 million prize, but if he or she chooses the lump sum option, there will be $443 million ready to take home.
The victor of the $758 million Powerball is a medical center worker and mother of two from Chicopee, Massachusetts.
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Human error has been deemed the reason why the winning $758.7 million Powerball ticket was initially announced from the wrong MA town.
While she could have remained anonymous, she said she came forward so quickly because she wanted to "get it over", hoping that everybody would leave her alone.
"A total of 245,185 tickets bought in Virginia won prizes, including one ticket that won $1 million", the Virginia Lottery press release said.
No Minnesotan has won the grand Powerball prize since Paul White took home more than $149 million in August 2013.
The winning numbers were 6, 7, 16, 23 and 26, and the Powerball number was 4.
But don't beat yourself up too much - the odds of winning the jackpot were one in 292.2 million.
Kaur said someone also won $1 million in a scratch lottery ticket at Handy Variety about eight years ago. For a better sense, he suggests people envision the 324 million US residents.
In addition, a $2 million victor was sold in Catawissa and another $200,000 victor was sold in Berwick.
MA state Lottery officials named Mavis L. Wanczyk of Chicopee as the victor of the $758.7 million Powerball Thursday in a press conference.
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