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Saturday’s PowerBall jackpot an estimated $334 million
The jackpot is an estimated $300 million for Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing – the third largest payoff of the year.
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“Part of the excitement of playing the lottery is just dreaming what you’d do with that kind of money”, said John Crow with the Georgia Lottery. The record US lottery prize of $656 million was a Mega Millions jackpot awarded in March 2012.
To make your ticket buying simple, you can let the lottery computer choose your Powerball numbers. If that figure holds, a one-time cash prize would be worth about $244 million, according to the website.
Between the two games, North Carolinians have won six jackpots between $12 million and $188 million.
But that sum paled compared with the biggest Powerball jackpots of 2015 – $564.1 million in February and $310.5 million in September. The odds of winning the jackpot with a $2 ticket are 1 in 30,821,472. Three contestants took home $1 million apiece.
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Laverne Bishop tells six news, she plays the lottery every single day, but today she’s hoping to win a life changing amount. The changes included extending the main ball pool to 69 balls, which added another 10 numbers.