A lottery ticket holder in South Carolina has scooped the largest jackpot in US history.

What happens now?

• To flip a fair coin 28 times and get heads every time (one in 268 million)
• For two people to randomly dial the same eight digit phone number (one in 100 million).
• To roll a six on a fair die 10 times in a row (one in 60 million)
• To die in a plane crash (one in 200,000)
• To die in a lightning strike (one in 114,000)

Top five US previous jackpot wins

• $1.58bn: A Powerball win in 2016. The prize was split three ways by ticket holders from California, Florida and Tennessee
• $758.7m: Won in 2017 by mother-of-two Mavis Wanczyk from Massachusetts. She said she had picked the numbers based on relatives' birthdays
• $656m: A Mega Millions top prize win in 2012, shared between three winners who purchased tickets in Maryland, Kansas and Illinois
• $648m: Another Mega Millions win, this time in 2013 by two ticket holders; a woman in Georgia and a man in California
• $590.5m: A Powerball jackpot won by an 84-year-old Florida woman