Franco opted to claim his prize in a one-time cash payout, which amounted to $477 million. The jackpot was won by Manuel Franco from Milwaukee. The winning ticket was purchased in Wisconsin. In March of this year, the second-largest Powerball jackpot in history was valued at $768.4 million. Winning tickets were sold in California, Florida and Tennessee. Powerball has been in existence since 1992 and the largest jackpot ever won was in 2016 when the prize reached $1.586 billion. The odds of winning the jackpot prize, however, are 1 in 292.2 million. Tickets cost $2 each, but players can multiply non-jackpot prizes by up to 10 times their value by purchasing the Power Play option for an additional $1.Īccording to official Powerball statistics, the chances of winning a prize by playing Powerball are 1 in 24.9. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Powerball draws take place each Wednesday and Saturday at 10:45 p.m.

Powerball is a multi-state lottery game that begins with a jackpot of $40 million, and increases by a minimum of $10 million with each draw until the top prize is won.īefore Wednesday's $80 million jackpot, the last jackpot reached $149 million and was won by a single ticket in New York on August 17, 2019. Justin Sullivan/Getty How to play Powerball

Dozens of people lined up outside of Kavanagh Liquors, a store that has had several multi-million dollar winners, to purchase Powerball tickets in hopes of winning the estimated record-breaking $1.5 billion jackpot. A customer holds a handful of Powerball tickets at Kavanagh Liquors on January 13, 2016, in San Lorenzo, California.

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