The jackpot for the multi-state Powerball game was $1.4 billion as of Monday, after nobody matched the winning numbers in Saturday’s drawing.
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According to their summary of winning tickets, 28 people won a $1 million prize.
A victor would have the option of being paid $1.5 billion through annual payments over 29 years or opting for one smaller cash payment.
Since then, there have been 19 consecutive drawings without a top prize victor.
In Iowa, the message printed Sunday at the bottom of all lottery tickets said the next Powerball jackpot would be $1,300 million.
That dream came true Saturday when Dominguez’s Powerball ticket yielded a $1 million prize. With 440 million tickets sold, there was a little more than a 77 percent chance that at least one person would have won the Powerball last week, Matheson said. “The identities of the winners are not yet known”.
Last week online ticketing site theLotter.com reported a surge in Canadians purchasing Powerball tickets online. The next drawing will be Wednesday night at 10:59 pm ET. And as more and more players daydream about what their riches could buy and load up on $2 tickets, the jackpot has soared even higher.
Powerball is played in 44 states as well as the District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Players have no doubt heard the odds that one is more likely get struck my lightning, twice, than win. He doesn’t know who bought it or what the jackpot was, but that history may help to fuel sales now. “We don’t have packages, just whatever amounts you want”, he said.
Forty-four states are playing the Powerball, and proceeds will have to be split among all of them.
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There are 292-million possible six-number combinations. “You have a slightly better chance of getting that name right than you do of winning the Powerball jackpot”, he said.
