Just think about what you could buy with cash! ET drawing) but you may want to get them early just in case. ET Saturday to get your tickets (most retailers cut off sales an hour before the 10:59 p.m. It's only the second time in the game's history that the Powerball jackpot has hit $1 billion or more and officially marks the largest jackpot in U.S. The Powerball jackpot has now climbed to a world-record $1.6 billion ($782 million cash), according to lottery officials, and could even top that by the time Saturday's drawing rolls around. The drawings are available to stream live on, it was serious.

Powerball drawings are broadcast live from the Florida Lottery studio on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays beginning at 10:59 p.m. Virgin Islands, with more than half of proceeds from each ticket sale going back to the jurisdiction where it was sold, the lottery says. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. A Powerball ticket costs $2 and can be purchased in 45 U.S. More broadly, the odds of winning any Powerball prize are slightly less than 1 in 25. Odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in approximately 292,200,000, according to Powerball. A ticket purchased in Ohio matched all six numbers drawn that night and took home the jackpot worth $252.6 million. There have been 35 consecutive Powerball drawings without a jackpot winner, since it was last hit in the lottery's April 19 drawing earlier this year. Another 28 tickets won prizes worth $50,000 during the most recent drawing, and 12 tickets won $10,000 each. The California ticket-holder won a $1 million prize, while the Iowa ticket-holder won $2 million - because they had purchased the ticket with the game's Power Play feature for an extra dollar, which doubles the prize.

Two tickets sold in California and Iowa, respectively, matched all five white balls and reaped significant earnings, lottery officials said in a news release.

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