Powerball jackpot reaches $900 million

Part of that is because of the surge in ticket sales.

(Bob Gathany/AL.com via AP).

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Nicholas Kalin, manager of Metro Mart on West Kennedy Boulevard, said the store usually averages $300 a day in Lottery ticket sales, but the current jackpot has caused that number to skyrocket.

Kavanagh Liquors in San Lorenzo, CA has a history of selling lucky tickets and has made a few people millionaires over the years.

Lottery drawings take place at that every Wednesday and Saturday.

If there’s no victor Saturday night, the jackpot rolls to an estimated $1.3 billion.

The drawing is the largest jackpot prize of any lottery game in USA history.

Powerball lottery officials are expecting more than $400 million in ticket sales on Saturday alone thanks to the jackpot soaring to $900 million.

No one claimed the winning numbers in Wednesday’s drawing. “You buy more than two, you’re just stupid”, he said.

For all the excitement, Grief urged those hoping to hit it big not to spend more than they can afford on the $2 tickets. “A lot of people who don’t normally play, and who very, very rarely play, were buying”.

Not great odds. But players can increase the value of smaller tiered prizes by checking off the multiplier on their tickets, she said.

The previous record North American jackpot payout for any lottery game was in March 2012, when $656 million was won in the multi-state Mega Millions draw.

El Guapo El Chapo now behind bars (for the time being, anyway) and Ted Cruz’s father’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate’s birth certificate now released, there doesn’t appear to be much preventing from the new Powerball jackpot of over $900 million from taking up major time in the news cycle more than any lottery drawing, like, ever.

The final Powerball winning numbers, including payouts, can be found here. People who wouldn’t normally play Powerball have been getting in on the action and buying tickets.

Amber Harger, of Mr. T’s Party Store & Deli at 1122 W. Washington St.in Greenville, bought her first-ever tickets yesterday.

“I would take a trip to the moon”, he said. A 10X multiplier will be available for the Match 4+1 prize and lower prize tiers when the jackpot is at or below $150 million, or when announced. Fill out a slip at a retailer – many grocery and convenience stores sell tickets – and pick five numbers from 1 to 69 in the top grid and one number from 1 to 26 in the bottom grid.

We can safely say, through statistics, that each Powerball number comes up randomly.