Someone in the US may have won a record lottery jackpot of $2.04bn after the numbers for the Powerball were drawn on Tuesday morning.
The numbers drawn at the Florida Lottery studio in Tallahassee were white balls 10, 33, 41, 47 and 56.
The red Powerball was 10.
If a player has guessed all six lucky numbers, including the final Powerball, they will win the largest lottery prize in history.
The jackpot was reported as an estimated $1.9bn (£1.6bn) on Monday, but the prize was increased to $2.04bn (£1.8bn) Tuesday morning after updated calculations.
It isn’t yet known if any jackpot-winning tickets were sold but word of that is expected to be announced later on Tuesday.
The previous jackpot was $1.6bn – the largest lottery prize ever at the time.
The jackpot will keep growing until someone wins it.
They will be the first Powerball jackpot winner since 3 August when a lucky ticket holder from Pennsylvania took home over $200m (£177m).
That string of 39 consecutive drawings without a winner is a reflection of the tough odds of winning a jackpot – at one in 292.2 million.
Only four previous jackpot have topped $1bn (around £860m) but none of those are close to the current prize, which started at $20m (£17m) back on 6 August, but has grown bigger and bigger over three winless months.
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The latest draw was meant to take place on Monday night but was delayed until 8:57am eastern US time (1:57pm UK) on Tuesday.
The Multi-State Lottery Association said the draw was delayed because a participating lottery had issues processing sales.
The association said it was against its policy to say which lottery had the delay.
The $2.04bn prize is for a winner who chooses an annuity, paid annually over 29 years. Nearly all winners instead opt for cash, but the value of that option wasn’t immediately available Tuesday morning.
The new jackpot tops the previous record prize of $1.586bn (£1.398bn) won in 2016 by three Powerball players in California, Florida and Tennessee.
The game is played in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
