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$350 Million Powerball Jackpot Up For Grabs

The next lottery drawing, the third highest in history, is Wednesday, May 15. Have you gotten your tickets, yet?

Saturday night's $270 million Powerball prize went unclaimed. Now, the jackpot is $350 million, the third-highest prize ever for the lottery game.

As with other jackpots, the final prize money may be well over $350 million by the time Wednesday comes. The more that the public becomes excited about a possible record-breaking win, the more people buy tickets.

And, the more people buy tickets, the higher the jackpot becomes.

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Powerball tickets for each game are $2, and there’s a 1 in 175.2 million chance that any ticket will win the grand prize.

Powerball tickets are sold from 5 a.m. until 10 p.m. on the days they are drawn (Wednesday and Saturday), and until 1 a.m. on all other days, according to lotter officials.

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The $350 million Powerball jackpot is the seventh highest annuity prize in United States history, and the sixth highest cash payout — $222.8 million — of all-time. 

The biggest Powerball jackpot ever was won Nov. 28, 2012, a $587.5 million prize split between two tickets.

What would you do with $350 million?



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