Powerball jackpot climbs to record $1.4 billion

There were 132,118 Arkansas players who took home a part of the $1,272,326 in prizes from $4 to $50,000 that were won in Arkansas Saturday night.

Lottery officials say the prize is the world’s largest.

The next Powerball lottery drawing is on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016.

No big victor in Saturday’s Powerball Jackpot means a massive prize just got bigger.

But yet again, there was no winning ticket.

The lump-sum payout jumped to $868 million.

“We never expected jackpots in the billion-dollar range”, Commission Director Dennis Berg told commission members at their monthly meeting on Monday.

Lottery players said they’re willing to take a risk, even with odds of winning at one in more than 290 million.

The odds to win are one in 292.2 million. The Powerball is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

Have a Powerball ticket?

You’d better check your ticket carefully. She’s not alone, saying the store sold “about $5,000 worth of tickets yesterday”.

Iowa Lottery officials say a Powerball ticket sold in Sioux City is worth $1 million.

“It’s just so hard to believe we won $1 million”, said Grayson.

Canadians had to cross the border to buy a US lotto ticket in the past, the site said.

As part of the research to create the app, Jacobson requested lottery collection data from all of the state lottery commissions in the country.

Manitobans are crossing the USA border to try their luck at winning more than a billion dollars, the world’s largest lottery jackpot. “It gives people something to be excited about”, he said.

But the huge jackpots like this week’s prize are actually a mirage.

Once you beat the astronomical odds and win, you’ll get to choose between being paid $900 million through annual payments over 29 years or opting for $496 million in cash. They have the option of a payout over thirty years or taking a lump sum.