A Syrian sold the ticket to the one who alone won two billion dollars in the American lottery

With a ticket he bought from a gas station owned and operated by an immigrant from Syria in America, he won more than he should, the largest prize money in history, which is what the lottery “Loto” known to Americans as Powerball will pay to one winner, the value of which, according to what they announced when the draw was made on television screens yesterday, Tuesday. More than two billion and 40 million dollars.

The reason he won the prize alone, is that no one else chose the numbers 10-33-41-47-56 with the number 10 for the red “Powerball” ball, so the five balls came down, and then the red ones from their Source, marked with the same numbers he chose from the number 1 to the last 69, according to What appears in a video presented by “Al Arabiya.net” to the withdrawal process, in which we find a simple calculation that each ball descended from its revolving Source with its balls, which generated more than 333 million dollars every 3 seconds, so look at the video to see it roll to where it settles She was given a final resting place in a plastic tube.

What the lucky owner of the saliva, whose name and nationality is unknown until now, earned him only two dollars, if he recorded on one ticket the numbers he chose. It appears that he lives or works in an area called Altadena in northeastern Los Angeles, California, or he was passing by his car when he turned and entered a gas station called Joe’s Service Center and grabbed a form that chose 6 numbers out of 69 in it, and his choice gave him the prize alone among millions of others .

As soon as local media mentioned the name of the station, citing the company organizing the lottery, dozens of curious people rushed to it to look at it, amid the frenzy of voting in the midterm elections, and like them, the media quickly got to know its owner, Joe Chahayed, 74 years old, and they learned from him that what he got from what happened It is a check for one million dollars, presented to him by the company to sell him the winning form, according to the applicable rules of its system.

Joe Shahid, and perhaps Shaheed, spoke to the reporters who visited him, and he expressed his happiness at winning the million dollars, and stated that he had owned the station and had been working there for nearly 20 years, and that he immigrated from Syria to the United States in 1980 with his wife and two children, which is what we hear after the 20th Another video shown by “Al Arabiya.net” below is about Shahid, who we see bearing the check for one million dollars, and who became a father in the United States to three other sons, and from some of his five children he has 11 grandchildren.

As for the owner of the winning numbers, he is the first to win the Powerball Grand Prix since a lucky winner from Pennsylvania won it on August 3, and it was worth $ 200 million, and since then no one has won it throughout 40 drawings, which take place every Saturday, Monday and Wednesday in 45 states, while no one has won it. Lottery license in 5 states and other territories, Alaska, Hawaii, Washington DC, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, where residents can watch the draw on TV, or move to other states to be able to participate and dream of their prize.

Prize in Arabic currencies

And they found, when the date of the draw came last Monday evening, that one of the sales centers faced complications in dealing with what he sold, according to what local media reported on the company that had to postpone the drawing until yesterday morning, Tuesday, in which the unknown shattered the dreams of millions who registered their numbers and came out of the dream to throw their forms in baskets. Trash. As for him, he can receive the entire prize, in 30 installments over 29 years, or in cash if he wants, which is preferred by every lucky winner, but more than half of it is deducted, so that his share becomes 997 million and 600 thousand dollars.

For those who do not feel the value of the prize, unless it is in the currency of their country, $2,04,000,000 is equal to 7 billion and 670 Saudi riyals, or more than 630 million Kuwaiti dinars, or one billion and 447 million Jordanian dinars, and approximately 7 billion and 500 million UAE dirhams, or 7 billion and 418 million Qatari riyals, and more than 58 billion Egyptian pounds, or 22 million Moroccan dirhams. As for the Lebanese currency, where the dollar is about 30,000 pounds, then Professor Google must be used to know that the prize requires a huge truck to carry 6 trillion and 120 billion pounds.