Delaware is becoming a lucky place when it comes to lottery jackpots.
The Delaware Lottery identified the Giant supermarket, located at Lighthouse Plaza Boulevard in Rehoboth Beach as the Retailer that sold one of three winning tickets for a $50 million Powerball jackpot prize in the Memorial Day weekend drawing on May 25.
The other two tickets that matched all six numbers correctly were sold in Florida and Louisiana.
Each of the three Powerball jackpot winners will have the option to choose a 20-year annuity or the cash value of their share of the jackpot. If the annuity option is chosen, each winner will receive one-third of the $50 million jackpot annuity, which will be paid over 20 years. If a winner chooses the cash option for their share of the jackpot they will receive a lump sum payment of one-third of the $31.1 million cash value. The winner in Delaware has not yet come forward.
“For one lucky winner in Delaware, Memorial Day weekend will now be remembered as the start of their life as a millionaire,” said Delaware Lottery Director Vernon Kirk. “And for our Retailer Super G, they are winners today for helping to make that happen and we are pleased to be adding them to our growing list of lucky Retailers.”
The Delaware Lottery has seen an increase in the number of millionaire winners in the First State since the POWERBALL game changed from a $1 to a $2 price point on January 15, 2012. Earlier this month, a 34-year-old woman from Wilmington, Del, was the lucky winner of $2 million in the drawing held May 15. The winning ticket was sold at Jay’s Liquors located at 900 N. DuPont Street, Wilmington.
In October of last year, a $50 million Powerball jackpot winning ticket was also sold in Delaware at Cutrona Liquors located at 4623 North Market Street in Wilmington. Since Powerball first began in 1992, Delaware has had a total of eight jackpot winners, which will increase to nine when the lucky winner from Saturday’s drawing comes forward.
In 2011, an unidentified couple won nearly $229 million from a ticket sold at a store in neighboring Cecil County, Md.
