Powerball jackpot creeps up to $1.1B ahead of Mon. drawing
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Tickets cost $2 per play, and are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The odds of winning Powerball’s jackpot are 1 in 290.2 million.
Just in time for the holidays, the Powerball lottery jackpot is now worth $1 billion. Find out how to get a ticket.
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US lottery jackpots used to never reach $1 billion. They’ve done it 12 times in the last 5 years
Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing went without a jackpot winner, pushing the top prize to an estimated $1 billion for Saturday. It’s the second largest of this year, lagging only the $1.787 billion Powerball jackpot in September, claimed by two winners in Missouri and Texas.
The Kentucky Lottery says two winning Powerball tickets, totaling $150,000, were sold in the state ahead of the Dec. 8 drawing.
The Powerball jackpot has jumped to $1.1 billion after no one claimed the prize Saturday night. The next drawing will take place Monday night. If someone wins Monday, this would be the sixth-largest prize in the game’s history.