The lottery’s largest, valued $2.05 billion, happened in late 2022, it said.Īpril 19 marked the most recent time someone has won Powerball’s jackpot. Powerball said 33 back-to-back drawings that haven’t yielded a grand prize winner have contributed to the jackpot reaching a level just shy of its 10th largest, $590.5 million in 2013. The one-time payout value of the two jackpots correspondingly totaled $525.4 million as of Thursday, consisting of $304.8 million from Powerball and $220.6 million from Mega Millions. The Mega Millions jackpot has stood at $427 million since Wednesday, bringing the combined total to $1.017 billion. Powerball’s jackpot has hit an estimated $590 million, a roughly $44 million increase that followed the lottery not drawing numbers on Wednesday resulting in a grand prize-winning ticket. The estimated combined jackpots of the Powerball and Mega Millions lotteries have breached the $1 billion-mark pre-tax ahead of Friday’s drawing for the latter.
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