In the past three months, Powerball has seen the jackpot increase to $825 million. It is now the fifth largest jackpot on record, and it is the highest jackpot ever in the lottery.
If you’re lucky enough to win, you’ll have the option of choosing either a cash prize or a lifetime annuity. The latter pays out an amount over 29 years, with the winner receiving 30 annual instalments.
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are one in 292 million. Those odds are much higher than the odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot, which are a little over a one in a million.
Unlike the Mega Millions, which is a multistate lottery, Powerball is a U.S. lottery that is played in 45 states and the Virgin Islands.
A lot of people dream of a big lottery win. The only problem is that the odds of a big jackpot are a lot longer than they used to be. This is thanks to rising interest rates, which are encouraging lottery operators to offer bigger prizes.
One lucky winner from the state of Kansas claimed $92.9 million in the Powerball. But there have been 40 Powerball drawings without a winner in the last three months.
Despite these odds, there has been a lot of activity in the lottery over the past year. Last week’s drawing was the first time since August that the pot did not hit its advertised $1.6 billion.