The second largest jackpot in US history, $758.7 million, has been won by a single ticket purchased in the small town of Chicopee, Massachusetts outside Boston.
A 53-year-old Massachusetts mother of two on Thursday came forward to claim the largest single jackpot win in US history -- $758.7 million -- and promptly quit her job of 32 years at a hospital.
Mavis Wanczyk said she played the lottery as a "pipe dream," never believing that it would one day be possible for her to retire early from the Mercy Medical Center, where she has worked for decades.
On Thursday that dream came true.
"I'm going to go hide in my bed!" she added when asked how she planned to celebrate, wearing black-framed spectacles, a zip-up hooded black sweater over a grey lace top, necklace and shoulder-length thick auburn hair.
She has the choice of taking the jackpot as an annuity spread over 30 years or a one-off cash lump sum of $480.5 million, depending on state taxes.
Wanczyk, who has a 31-year-old daughter and 26-year-old son, said she previously been "OK" financially and had yet to work out how to spend her millions, other than paying off the car she bought last year.
While she could have remained anonymous, she said she came forward so quickly because she wanted to "get it over," hoping that everybody would leave her alone.
The $758.7 million jackpot is Powerball's highest since a January 2016 world record of $1.6billion.
