California Lottery Reveals Who Won Massive $1.765 Billion Powerball® Jackpot

• Theodorus Struyck has been identified as the representative of a group of winners who purchased the $1.75billion ticket
• Midway Market & Liquor in Frazier Park, California, won at least $1 million just for selling the ticket

SACRAMENTO (March 16, 2024) — While players line up across the state to try their chances at two jackpots approaching the billion-dollar mark, today the California Lottery is revealing for the first time who won the massive, second highest-ever jackpot with a very lucky Powerball ticket sold in a small town in Kern County.

Theodorus Struyck represents the group of winners who bought that ticket at Midway Market in Frazier Park ahead of the historic draw back in October of last year.

Their jackpot win came during the 36th draw for that Powerball sequence – a run that allowed California Lottery to raise an additional $119.5 million for public schools.

The winning numbers were: 22, 24, 40, 52, 64 and the Powerball 10

“Announcing big wins like this gives all of our players the chance to hope and dream that they could be next,” said California Lottery Director Harjinder K. Shergill Chima. “But it also gives us an opportunity to shine the spotlight on our terrific mission, which is to generate additional, supplemental funding for public education in California. So, it’s students of all ages across the state, who win every day thanks to our players, our retail partners who sell these fun games, and our hard-working staff here at the Lottery. This is an exciting day for all of us!”

May and Jacklin Khalil, the owners of the store, celebrated and said they were ‘so happy’ after learning that they were set to receive $1 million just for selling the winning numbers

Midway Market – a family-owned business for 30 years – received a $1,000,000 bonus check for selling the incredibly lucky ticket. California Lottery’s more than 23,000 retail partners collectively earned more than $18 million in commissions and bonuses during that historic three-month jackpot run.

This was the second largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever won, coming in behind the record-breaking $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot of 2022, also hit in California.

California Lottery players have won, or co-won, the top four-largest jackpots in Powerball history dating back to 2016 – all worth

more than $1 billion.

The next Powerball draw will happen Saturday and carries a jackpot currently estimated at

$600 million. Similarly, the Mega Millions prize pot has also been surging, with a jackpot just increased to an estimated $815 million for the draw tonight.

The current Mega Millions run, which has been going for more than three months, has helped California Lottery raise an estimated $59.9 million for public schools.

For every Powerball or Mega Millions ticket sold in California, approximately 80 cents goes toward public schools. Raising money for public schools is the sole mission of the California Lottery, and higher jackpots maximize the opportunity for additional revenue as more people play.

As jackpots rise, the California Lottery would like to remind players that gambling

should be fun. Borrowing money to play, spending above a person’s budget, or using money intended for other purposes can ultimately lead to significant problems for players and their families. If a player recognizes that they have a gambling problem or if someone knows of someone who may have a problem, the Lottery recommends calling the California Problem Gambling Help Line at 1-800-GAMBLER.

SOURCE: California Lottery.