Winning tickets were sold in Texas, North Carolina and Puerto Rico in Wednesday's $564 million Powerball drawing, lottery officials confirmed. The 3 tickets matched the numbers 25, 11, 54, 13 and 39, with a Powerball of 19.

Senior drawing manager for the Multi-State Lottery Association, Sue Dooley, said that Puerto Rico ticket was the first Powerball jackpot winner ever sold outside the continental U.S. Puerto Rico joined Powerball less than a year ago. However, Dooley had no immediate information on the specific locations of where the tickets were sold.

Should the winners select the lump sum option, each would get a one-third share of 381,138,450.16 dollars before taxes.

The jackpot was the third-largest in Powerball history and the fifth-largest U.S. lottery prize. The jackpot now reverts to 40 million dollars.

It had been nearly 2 years since a Powerball jackpot has grown as big as Wednesday's prize. That time, it was a 590.5 million dollar jackpot won in May 2013 in Florida, a prize that ranked third on the all-time list.

State officials, who run Powerball and Mega Millions, in 2012, changed ticket prices and lowered the odds of winning jackpots in hopes the moves would increase the number of huge prizes and draw more players.

The new rules worked, causing jackpots to repeatedly climb to record levels. More than half of the top 10 U.S. jackpots have been reached in the past couple of years.

Though, prizes grew larger, there had been something of a jackpot drought, as it had been nearly a year since a Powerball prize reached the giant number people have come to expect.

That was in February 2014 when someone won 425.3 million dollars. A Mega Millions jackpot reached 326 million dollars in November, but that was the first huge prize since the game rose to 414 million dollars in March 2014.