BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -A Louisville family’s last-minute purchase of several Powerball® tickets paid off with a $50,000 win during the game’s recent $1.7 billion jackpot run.

According to the Kentucky Lottery, the family, who asked to remain anonymous, said they debated for hours about buying tickets for the Sept. 6 drawing, which featured the second-largest jackpot in the game’s history.

“When the jackpot gets high, you start noticing because everybody’s buzzing. Everybody’s talking about it. It’s everywhere,” the mom said. “But I didn’t want to go buy a ticket, but my grandson kept pushing us to. So, at nine that night I said, ‘come on, let’s go.’”

The family said they decided to go to three different lottery retailers to buy their tickets, with the winning ticket being purchased at M&S

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