The largest Powerball jackpot of the year is up for grabs Saturday at an estimated $1.4 billion.
Share on email It's the third-largest Powerball jackpot and the nation's fifth-largest lottery prize ever.Lottery officials said they anticipate the majority of ticket purchases will happen Saturday "in the final hours leading up to the drawing."— have become the norm for the past few years after the two lotteries made the games harder to win and more enticing to play.
Lottery players can pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers — five different numbers from 1 to 69 and one number from 1 to 26 for the red Powerball.The overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24.9.The odds of being struck by lightning in a year are less than one in a million, according to data from theAlabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah do not participate in the lottery.
to purchase tickets for Saturday's drawing varies by state because Powerball tickets are sold by individual lotteries.Powerball tickets are $2 per play but for an extra $1 per play you can add the Power Play feature to "multiply non-jackpot prizes by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 times."The Match 5 prize with Power Play is always $2 million, Powerball said.
The 10X multiplier is only in play when the advertised jackpot annuity is $150 million or less, according to the lottery.
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