Powerball Jackpot Hits $900M: Have You Bought Your Ticket Yet?
Lottery players, take heart. Officials say it's increasingly likely that someone will win the $900 million Powerball jackpot.
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Lottery players, take heart. Officials say it's increasingly likely that someone will win the $900 million Powerball jackpot.
The Powerball jackpot for Saturday night's drawing is expected to be at least $800 million. While that's the largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever, lotteries elsewhere in the world can be far bigger.
The record-breaking $800 million Powerball jackpot is the stuff of dreams, but it all boils down to math.
A lottery official says the estimated prize for this weekend's Powerball drawing is the largest jackpot of any lottery game in U.S. history.
The Powerball jackpot has climbed to $500 million - one of the largest in the game's history.
There was no grand prize winner of Saturday's Powerball drawing worth $334 million. Since then, the top prize has grown to $450 million and will be drawn on Wednesday night.
OK, so we've all probably seen those stats on things that are more likely to happen to you than winning the lottery – like shark attacks, being hit by lightning, and dying on the way to buy a lotto ticket (maybe after being hit by lightning).
Officials say the Powerball jackpot has risen to an estimated $500 million, which would make it the fifth largest lottery prize in U.S. history.
The Powerball jackpot has climbed to $485 million, making Wednesday night's drawing the fifth largest prize in U.S. history.
California Lottery officials say they have had a winning year with annual ticket sales surpassing $5 billion for the first time in the state lottery's 30-year history.
They don't have a name, but the gas station showed CBS13 surveillance video of the woman they are sure is the lucky lottery winner. We've blurred her face to protect her identity until she comes forward.
A Powerball ticket sold at a store in San Bernardino County matches all six numbers in this weekend's drawing to win $60 million.
The holders of two lucky tickets purchased states apart awoke to good news Wednesday: They will split a Mega Millions jackpot of $414 million, the third-largest prize in the game's history.
A lottery player in Sacramento County has hit the jackpot in Saturday night's $60 million Powerball drawing.
California lottery officials say the ticket was sold at Dixon Landing Chevron in Milpitas, about 10 miles north of San Jose.
Superstition didn't deter players hoping that Friday the 13th would bring them good luck in the recently revamped Mega Millions game, as heavy sales prompted lottery officials to boost the jackpot from $400 million to $425 million.
A Powerball ticket worth $487,000 was sold at a West Sacramento gas station.
Cross your fingers, put on your lucky socks and think happy thoughts if you want to be the winner in Wednesday's $425 million Powerball jackpot.
With more than half a billion dollars up for grabs, Americans are once again having big jackpot dreams. The line at Lichini's Liquor and Deli in Sacramento wraps around the store, and it's been that way the entire afternoon, with 10 to 15-minute wait to get up to the counter.
The numbers sum up the frenzy that has taken over the Golden State since it became the newest in the nation to join the madness over Powerball, which saw its jackpot soar Thursday to $550 million.
It was a first for California Wednesday night as the winning numbers for the Powerball Lottery were drawn in Sacramento.
The long wait is over for Californians who can now finally play the Powerball lottery.
It's too late for California residents to try to cash in on this week's $588 million Powerball jackpot, but state lottery commissioners voted Thursday to start selling tickets for the game next year.
