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The Powerball jackpot has grown to $700 million, with the subsequent drawing set for Wednesday at 10:59 p.m. ET.
Gross sales officers elevated the jackpot Wednesday by about $15 million as a result of robust ticket gross sales. The highest prize now carries a lump-sum possibility estimated at $352.3 million, the multistate game operator mentioned.
This grand prize can be the ninth-largest prize in Powerball historical past, it mentioned.
Monday’s drawing yielded no grand prize match of all six numbers, according to Powerball. Two tickets took dwelling the $2 million Match 5+ Energy Play Prize in Colorado and Georgia, and three obtained the $1 million Match 5 in California, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.
The Powerball jackpot was final gained on October 11, when a ticket in California won a $1.765 billion grand prize. The chances of profitable the grand prize are 1 in 292,201,338, in response to Powerball. Tickets value $2 per play and are bought in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
In the meantime, the one who purchased the winningest ticket in the nation’s other big-jackpot multistate lottery – Mega Tens of millions – might by no means be identified publicly.
The official winner of that recreation’s $1.6 billion jackpot, drawn in August, is a restricted legal responsibility firm referred to as Saltines Holdings, LLC, the Florida Lottery announced Wednesday. The recipient is about to get a lump-sum cost of greater than $794 million and might keep nameless by means of the LLC.
CNN’s Andy Rose contributed to this report.