Powerball jackpot races past $1 billion mark to estimated $1.2 billion
There were no winning tickets sold for Monday night's Powerball drawing so the grand prize for Wednesday night's selections will be a minimum of roughly $1.2 billion.
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There were no winning tickets sold for Monday night's Powerball drawing so the grand prize for Wednesday night's selections will be a minimum of roughly $1.2 billion.
The Powerball prize is its second-largest ever, officials said.
No one won Wednesday's pot of gold of about $700 million, which was already the game's largest this year.
Now might just be a good time to buy a Powerball ticket.
The jackpot, which crossed the $600M mark Saturday, is the eighth-largest Powerball prize to date.
The Powerball jackpot for Saturday's drawing is estimated to be $580 million, lottery officials announced Friday. It marks the tenth-largest Powerball jackpot ever.
The jackpot marks the tenth-largest Powerball jackpot ever.
The winner says he would use it to pay bills, or possibly "for something fun like a Jet Ski."
It was an itch to get rich. One customer at a small Auburn store just scratched his way into multi-millionaire status.
It's the most somebody has ever won in California from a scratchers ticket, a $20 million prize. Some customers are surprised that such a large jackpot was sold at their small neighborhood market. The store owner didn't want to go on camera but he says the winner is a regular customer and a nice guy.
There was one winning ticket in the draw Friday night, and it was bought in Illinois, according to megamillions.com.
The cash value option of Friday's jackpot is $742.2 million.
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Now that the Mega Millions lottery jackpot has topped $1 billion — only the fourth time a lottery game has reached such heights — plenty of people who rarely play the game are considering risking $2 or joining an office pool in hopes of an immense payoff.
Todd Graves promised to split the prize, which as of Monday had risen to $810 million, with all of his employees if any of the tickets win the jackpot.
It's now one of the biggest grand prices ever.
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The jackpot is the third largest in history.
Lottery officials say the Powerball jackpot for Wednesday's drawing has ballooned to an estimated $750 million , which would be the fourth-largest grand lottery prize in U.S. history.
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