He won the Powerball lottery and before collecting the prize he received an 'unusual message'

Throughout the United States, there are thousands of people who play the lottery regularly. Every month or week they buy tickets in the hope that they can win something and change their life. That was the case Teerawat Akkarach, a Maryland man who was surprised to realize he had a winning ticket, which he discovered after receiving an unusual message.

According to the story that was released by lottery authorities and reproduced by The Sun, the man used to play draw about once a month. In January, bought several Powerball tickets on Yardley Ridge Road in Sterling, Virginia. As was his custom, decided to wait about a week before checking the results on the lottery app.

When he checked the results, he first scanned the first few tickets and was disappointed to see that none of them were winners. When checking the third, an unusual message appeared on the screen telling him that his prize was more than US$600, which caught his attention. She continued scanning the other tickets she had and saw that there was no other prize to claim.

Without much expectation, he and his wife double-checked the numbers on the ticket that had been marked as the winner and They were excited when they realized that the prize was much greater than US$600, since it was US$150,000.

When he went to claim his prize at the lottery office, he assured the authorities that he was never lucky in anything. For the first time, the man from Rockville, Maryland, had matched four of the winning numbers from the drawing on January 8, which were 7, 17, 28, 40 and 45 and the Powerball number 2. Under normal conditions, this would mean that his prize was US$50,000. However, He decided to invest an extra dollar in the Power Play function through which he tripled the amount.

How do you play the Powerball lottery in the United States?

If you want to try your luck and perhaps win an important prize like Teerawat Akkarach, you should know that Powerball drawings take place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10:59 PM Eastern Time.

Ticket sales are in 45 US states. and they can be purchased up to one or two hours before the draw takes place, depending on the jurisdiction that is in charge of the sale on each occasion. However, it is worth mentioning that the probability of matching all six numbers to win the jackpot is one in 292,200,000.