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The Powerball jackpot simply would possibly not give up.
Via 38 drawings over 3 months, no price tag has controlled to compare all six numbers drawn. For Monday night time’s drawing, the jackpot is now $540 million.
But the prize nonetheless is not sufficient to vault it into the highest 10 greatest lottery jackpots. The crown is going to a 2016 Powerball jackpot value $1.58 billion when 3 winners — from California, Florida and Tennessee — hit the motherlode. No longer a long way at the back of is a $1.53 billion Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot in 2018 that was once claimed by means of a sole winner in South Carolina.
To go into the highest 10, a jackpot must succeed in greater than $648 million — that is the quantity in tenth position, which was once cut up in 2013 by means of two Mega Hundreds of thousands avid gamers, one from California, the opposite from Georgia.
After all, there are winners of smaller quantities in each and every drawing.
Within the closing Powerball pull, held Saturday, a price tag offered in Florida landed $10 million within the sport’s “Double Play,” which no longer all jurisdictions be offering. Moreover, somebody in Maryland received $2 million, and 3 tickets — offered in Arizona, California and Florida — are value $1 million each and every.
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The marketed prize quantities are in accordance with the winner taking their loot as 30 bills over 29 years. Maximum jackpot winners, on the other hand, make a selection the decrease, instant money choice. For this $540 million Powerball prize, that money quantity is $384.3 million (earlier than taxes).
In the meantime, the Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot is $244 million for Tuesday night time’s drawing. The money choice is $172.5 million.
The risk of a unmarried price tag hitting the jackpot in both sport is tiny: 1 in 292 million for Powerball and 1 in 302 million for Mega Hundreds of thousands.