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US lottery jackpots used to never reach $1 billion. They’ve done it 12 times in the last 5 years
Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing went without a jackpot winner, pushing the top prize to an estimated $1 billion for Saturday. It’s the second largest of this year, lagging only the $1.787 billion Powerball jackpot in September, claimed by two winners in Missouri and Texas.
A lottery ticket worth over $11 million was sold at a convenience store in Ohio.
Mega Millions followed a similar path. Its first jackpot winner in 2002 took home $28 million. Its record prize — a $1.602 billion jackpot won on Aug. 8, 2023 — ranks as the fourth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
A Long Island man scored big in the New York Lottery, winning a $1 million second prize in the Powerball game for matching the first five numbers drawn on Sept. 6, lottery officials announced.
One ticket matching all five Powerball numbers during the Dec. 8 drawing was sold on the Treasure Coast, leaving the winner with a $1 million win.
A Middletown store sold a ticket worth more than $2.8 million, while a Howell store sold a $1 million-winning ticket.