LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville family took a chance on winning the Powerball’s recent billion-dollar jackpot and a last-minute ticket paid off.

Kentucky Lottery officials said the family, who wished to remain anonymous, debated for hours about getting tickets for the Sept. 6 drawing. The jackpot rose to $1.7 billion, the second largest 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 family’s mom said. “But I didn’t want to go buy a ticket, but my grandson kept pushing us to.”

The woman said she eventually caved, and they went out to purchase a ticket. They went to three different retailers, but the winning ticket was sold at M&S Food Mart on Bluegrass Parkway in Louisville.

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