Someone who bought a Powerball lottery ticket in the San Fernando Valley just started their month off with a bang.
The store, confirmed by California Lottery officials to be the 7-Eleven location on Woodman Avenue in the Arleta neighborhood, sold the winning $207 million ticket with the numbers 1, 29, 37, 56 and 68 and also matched the Powerball 13.
Had they only matched the five lucky numbers, the winner would have walked away with a (comparatively) measly $154,304, according to the California Lottery.
KTLA spoke with one of the managers of the Arleta store who sold the winning slip on Sunday morning, and he said that this is the most exciting thing to happen in all the years he’s worked there.
“It’s actually quite unbelievable…I’ve been working here for a long time,” he told KTLA 5’s Jasmine Simpkins, adding that the store gets a $1 million bonus for selling the winning ticket.
The winner, meanwhile, has the choice of receiving the nine-figure jackpot in 30 installments over 29 years, or they could take a lump sum payment of $92.5 million.
Their identity has not been revealed; as of publication, it is not known if they were even awake.
