How to increase your odds of winning Powerball

Counting Sunday’s purchases, MI players already have bought almost 3.3 million tickets for Wednesday night’s drawing and a chance to win the world-record $1.4 billion jackpot. The upfront cash payout is $930 million.

Yes, you read that right.

The Powerball is played in 44 states, as well as the District, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

The Powerball lottery jackpot just keeps on growing. Only a ticket holder who opts to collect the jackpot in annual payments will gets the entire $1.5 billion.

People see me say that all the time in interviews and say ‘What do you mean?

Jeffery Grayson, 56, won $1 million playing Powerball with a ticket purchased at the Meijer store located at 3175 South Rochester Road, in Rochester Hills. That compares with a one in 700,000 chance of being killed by an asteroid in a lifetime, according to astronomers at the Space Science Institute. “While this is exciting, the Minnesota Lottery encourages players to play responsibly”.

The Powerball lottery drawing will be held on Wednesday.

“Sales are doing exponentially more than we’ve ever done before”, he said, adding that they were more than double what they were before the last record U.S. jackpot of $656 million in March 2012 – won by ticket holders. Since then, there have been 19 consecutive drawings without a top prize victor. It’s now estimated at $1.5 billion.

Find your nearest Powerball retailer by visiting the New Jersey lottery website. The odds of purchasing the jackpot-winning ticket are about 1 in 292.2 million, and the next drawing is scheduled to be conducted Wednesday at 10:59 p.m. EST.

According to officials with the Florida Lottery, sales for the signature Florida Lotto game have risen 34.08 percent with the ballooning of the Powerball jackpot.