Published Sun, Feb 12, 2012 07:56 AM
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Rhode Island resident is a big No. 1 among Powerball winners

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By Ron Gallagher - rgallagher@newsobserver.com

Tags: Powerball | jackpot | ticket

Someone in the smallest state in the country is the biggest winner among the people who hold 2,777,232 winning tickets from last night's Powerball drawing – $336 million worth.

The Powerball organization says the Rhode Island Lottery sold a ticket that had the right pick to claim a jackpot of $336,400,000 because it says 1 10 37 52 57 and a Powerball of 11.

The odds for winning a jackpot in Powerball are 1 in 175,223,510, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which operates Powerball and the MegaMillions game.

In North Carolina, 90,180 winners can claim something. Three of them have $40,000 coming, and four are $10,000 winners.

One ticket sold in South Carolina is worth $1 million this morning, but even that is only 1/336 of the ocean of happiness washing over someone in the Ocean State.

The jackpot-winning ticket was the first since Christmas Eve.

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