The record US jackpot is $656 million.
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Powerball tickets are sold by 47 lotteries: Iowa, 43 other states, the District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. $800 million is easily the largest jackpot of any lottery game in US history.
Between $5 million and $10 million per hour in Powerball ticket sales were expected in California in the hours leading up to Saturday’s drawing, said Alex Traverso, spokesman for California Lottery.
No one won the Wednesday Jan. 6 Powerball jackpot, so the pot rolled over. “The largest lottery jackpot prize ever offered in the United States and a tremendous boost and opportunity for scholarship funding here in Arkansas”, state Lottery Director Bishop Woosley said in a news release.
“When I win, don’t look for me I’ll look for you”, Bennie Martin Sr said. “Players in Missouri have until 8:59 p.m.to purchase Powerball tickets for Saturday night’s drawing”. The bigger prize entices more people to buy tickets, and that drives up the jackpot. The next drawing is slated for Saturday night.
The jackpot for the twice-weekly game started at $40 million on November 4 and has been growing ever since.
But would it change your mind if you knew which numbers were most commonly drawn as Powerball winners?
The new jackpot translates into a $428.4 million cash value for a potential victor or winners.
You might have a better chance of becoming the president than winning the Powerball jackpot, but that didn’t stop me from buying a ticket, either.
The odds of winning that prize are 1 in more than 900,000.
“As it gets bigger and bigger, more people are playing”, Everett said. It boasts of having “official tickets for all the world’s biggest lotteries”, including the Powerball in the United States and EuroMillions in France.
The vast majority of the winnings were for either matching just the Powerball number or the Powerball with one number.
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Your odds of picking the correct red Powerball number have actually improved, since players now choose from 26 numbers, down from 39 That boosts the chances of winning some kind of prize to 1 in 25 from 1 in 32.
