The New Year kicked off with Powerball worth half a billion dollars.
A further person in Wisconsin bought the other ticket and will obtain the other half of the prize.
The Powerball numbers for Wednesday, January 5 are in.
It’s the fifth-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever, and it comes one day immediately after no one won the even-larger Mega Millions prize, which now stands at $970 million.
The Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots are proving to be elusive for lottery players.
In all, 26,523 tickets won prizes in North Carolina, ranging from $4 to $1 million.