What To Watch For?
The next Powerball drawing is set to take place on Wednesday night. Before that, on Tuesday night, Mega Millions is set to hold its next drawing for a jackpot that has swollen to $707 million.
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Big Number
1-in-292.2 million. Those are the astronomical odds a Powerball ticket buyer will need to overcome to win the jackpot. This is even worse than the Mega Millions jackpot’s already poor odds of 1-in-290.4 million.
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This is only the second lottery prize to cross the $550 million mark so far this year, behind only the ongoing Mega Millions jackpot. Of the prizes that have been claimed so far, the biggest of the year is a $533 million jackpot won by a Mega Millions ticket buyer from Illinois in March. The biggest completed Powerball jackpot of the year so far is a $250.8 million prize won by a lottery player from Arkansas.
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