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The man played the numbers of his birth date on a $3 Power Play ticket, officials said.

Across the U.S., state lottery systems use that revenue to boost education, tourism, transportation and much more.

The Mega Millions jackpot was the third largest ever at an estimated $660 million with a cash option of $388 million.

Two tickets sold in California matched all five white balls to win $492,603 each.

For this jackpot, a required federal tax withholding of 24% would reduce the $208.5 million cash option by about $50 million. More would likely be due, as well.

A married couple from Gilbert, Arizona claimed the winning ticket for the $437.1 million Powerball jackpot Friday.

The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. But it never hurts to be prepared.

The Powerball jackpot has grown to $400 million, the highest payout since January.

Whether due to losing a ticket, not checking it closely or some other mishap, lottery winners have left millions of dollars unclaimed over the years.

The jackpot was an estimated $126 million with a cash option of $86.1 million.

After no winners came forward Wednesday, the jackpot is now up to an estimated $85 million with a cash value of $56.6 million.

A woman from Israel will be heading home with a lot of extra cash after she hit for a $1 million prize playing Powerball while in Broward County.

A South Florida resident is one of the newest millionaires from the multistate Powerball drawing.

The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.

The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.

A northeastern Wisconsin couple have claimed half of a $632.6 million Powerball jackpot won last month, the Wisconsin Lottery announced Monday. Tammy and Cliff Webster, who live in Oneida, near Green Bay, won roughly $316 million of the jackpot from the Jan. 5 drawing. The other winning ticket was sold in California. The total jackpot was the seventh largest in Powerball's history.

Winning the six-figure jackpot meant beating odds of 1-in-913,129.

“I had a dream ever since the Powerball started that I was going to win,” the man said.

One lottery player in California won Friday's $421 million Mega Millions jackpot.

One was purchased in Sacramento, California and the other in Wisconsin. It wasn't clear whether each was bought by one person or more than one.

The two winners will split the seventh-largest pot in Powerball history, but they won't receive the same amount due to differences in state taxes.

Powerball tickets sold in Wisconsin and California were winners of the latest jackpot and will split $632 million.

One was purchased in Sacramento, California and the other in Wisconsin. It wasn't clear whether each was bought by one person or more than one.

One was purchased in Sacramento, California and the other in Wisconsin. It wasn't clear whether each was bought by one person or more than one.

In addition to the jackpot winners, 14 other tickets won million-dollar prizes, including one in New Jersey.

It's the seventh-largest Powerball jackpot ever.

You're more likely to be killed by an asteroid impact than win the Powerball jackpot.

The lump-sum cash payment for a single jackpot winner is estimated at around $384.3 million, according to Powerball.

Between Powerball and Mega Millions, the top 10 largest jackpots ever won range from $648 million to nearly $1.6 billion.

A single winner would take home close to $355.9 million in cash value.

Powerball's last drawing of 2021 was Wednesday night, capping a year that had six winning jackpots worth an aggregate $2 billion.

Winning Powerball numbers hadn't led to a jackpot victory in the 35 draws before Monday's.

It's the third time this year that the prize has reached the $400 million mark.

‘This money is not about me. It’s about all of the good that can come from it,’ said the winner, who purchased the ticket at a grocery story in Morro Bay.

A Broward County resident is celebrating a $2 million Powerball score this Thanksgiving.

A woman from Gainesville won $1 million in the Sept. 29 Powerball drawing, Florida Lottery announced Wednesday.

Lottery officials say that a Miami man matched all five of the white ball numbers — but not the Powerball — in the Oct. 4 drawing of the multistate game.

Florida Lottery says a Powerball ticket worth $1 million was sold at a Fresco y Más liquor store in Miami-Dade County ahead of Monday's drawing.

After 40 drawings without a winner, a single ticket sold at a California grocery store matched all six numbers. The winning jackpot was the seventh-largest in U.S. lottery history.

It was bought in Morro Bay, California. The winning numbers were white balls of 12, 22, 54, 66, and 69 and a Powerball number of 15.

It was bought in California. The winning numbers were white balls of 12, 22, 54, 66, and 69 and a Powerball number of 15.

Every new drawing now sets a record, topping the previous mark of 36 drawings that ended in January 2021. The longer the game goes without a grand prize winner, the larger the payout will grow.

After 40 drawings without a big Powerball winner, a single ticket sold in California matched all six numbers and was the lucky winner of the nearly $700 million jackpot prize.

After 40 drawings without a big Powerball winner, maybe Monday night's 41st attempt will be different. Thanks to nearly four months of futility, the Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $685 million, making it the eighth largest in U.S. lottery history. No one has won the game's grand prize since June 5.

The Powerball jackpot has slowly climbed to an estimated $635 million thanks to 39 consecutive drawings without a grand prize winner.

The biggest lottery prize in more than eight months is growing larger after no ticket matched all five numbers and the Powerball in Saturday night’s drawing.

The biggest lottery prize in months grew larger after no ticket matched all five numbers and the Powerball drawn on Saturday night. The estimated jackpot for the next drawing on Monday is $670 million. Saturday night's numbers were 28, 38, 42, 47 and 52.

The more people who buy tickets, the larger the prize grows.

The giant Powerball jackpot has grown even bigger, with officials raising the estimated payout to $635 million ahead of Saturday night’s drawing.

Since the jackpot was last won in early June, there have been 38 drawings with no grand prize winner.

The Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $620 million after nearly four months without a big winner.

Powerball is up to $472 million after going unclaimed Sunday, while Mega Millions is up to $432 million, lottery officials say.

Winners of big jackpots face a few important decisions that should be handled before heading to lottery headquarters to claim their windfall.

The family bought the winning ticket during a bathroom break at a 7-Eleven in Maryland while on their way home from vacation.

Between the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots that have been claimed so far this year, winners have paid more than $500 million in federal taxes.

Kenneth Morgan of Jacksonville was cleaning his home this weekend when says he just happened to stumble upon a Powerball ticket from April that was worth $1 million.

Florida Lottery says the person who won a $286 million jackpot on the June 5 Powerball drawing still hasn’t come forward. Is it yours?

Florida Lottery revealed Monday that the winning Powerball ticket from Saturday’s $286 million drawing was purchased at a Circle K in Jacksonville.

A $28 million Florida Lotto ticket was sold in Davie, and state lottery officials are still waiting for the jackpot winner to come forward. The lucky quick-pick ticket was sold at the Griffin 441 Shell located at 4801 South State Road 7, Florida Lottery says. For selling the winning ticket, the Shell station will get $100,000 in bonus commission. AdThere’s an even luckier winner in the Tampa area right now, as a Powerball jackpot ticket worth $238 million was sold on that side of the state for Saturday night’s drawing. That ticket was sold at the Publix on North Nebraska Avenue in Lutz.

Boise, Idaho — Fearing foreign participation in the Powerball lottery, Idaho lawmakers killed legislation on Wednesday that would have allowed the game with huge jackpots to continue in the state after a run of more than 30 years. The move came after Idaho Lottery officials sought a change in state law because Powerball is expanding to include Australia in 2021 and Britain in 2022. "This is a big jackpot game, so players like to have big jackpots," Jeff Anderson, director of the Idaho Lottery, told lawmakers. Some Idaho lawmakers said they feared that the odds of an Idaho resident winning would be reduced with more players. Officials at the Multi-State Lottery Association in an email declined comment about the Idaho Powerball decision.

Idaho Lottery Director Jeff Anderson addresses the House State Affairs Committee at the Statehouse in Boise, Idaho on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. The panel killed legislation that would have allowed the Powerball game with multi-million dollar jackpots to continue in the state. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler)BOISE, Idaho – Idaho lawmakers fearing foreign participation in the Powerball lottery killed legislation on Wednesday that would have allowed the game with huge jackpots to continue in the state after a run of more than 30 years. The move came after Idaho Lottery officials sought a change in state law because Powerball is expanding to include Australia in 2021 and Britain in 2022. Some Idaho lawmakers said they feared that the odds of an Idaho resident winning would be reduced with more players.

The multistate Powerball game had a $2 million winner in South Florida last month. CUTLER BAY, Fla. – Just days after the $731.1 million Powerball winner was sold up in Maryland a few weeks back, a South Florida man had his own significant score in the popular lottery game. Everett Kurtz, 68, of Cutler Bay, won a $2 million prize from the Powerball drawing held Jan. 23 — the next drawing after the nine-figure jackpot in Maryland. Kurtz’s ticket matched all five of the white ball numbers but did not match the Powerball, Florida Lottery officials said. Florida Lottery says that since the state joined the Powerball game in 2009, it has generated more than $2.2 billion in contributions to education statewide.

A patron, who did not want to give his name, uses the lottery ticket vending kiosk at a Smoker Friendly store to purchase tickets for the Mega Millions lottery drawing, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, in Cranberry Township, Pa. The jackpot for the Mega Millions lottery game has grown to $1 billion ahead of Friday night's drawing after more than four months without a winner. It’s only the third time a lottery jackpot has grown so large, but much has changed since the last time such a big prize was up for grabs in 2018. After a peak in October 2018, Medenica said sales of the big lottery games dropped about 50%, prompting talk among lottery officials about jackpot fatigue. It’s hard to fathom how unlikely it is to beat odds of one in 292.2 million for Powerball or one in 302.5 million for Mega Millions.

MARK RALSTON | AFP | Getty ImagesAt some point, whether Friday night or down the road, someone is going to win the Mega Millions jackpot. With the odds stacked against players matching all six numbers needed to hit the mother lode, the lottery game's top prize has reached an estimated $970 million for Friday night's drawing. The cash option — which most winners choose over an annuity — is $716.3 million (pretax). Friday night's drawing is coming just a few days after another lottery game had a huge amount of money won: A ticket purchased in Maryland hit Powerball's $731.1 million jackpot ($546.8 million cash option), which ranks as the sixth-largest prize ever. "We know that players love big jackpots, and when the numbers are this big, it becomes a national phenomenon," said Gordon Medenica, Maryland lottery director and lead director of Mega Millions.

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There's a winning ticket for the $730 million Powerball jackpot, the first to get the top prize in months. The biggest prize ever was a $1.58 billion Powerball jackpot won by three people in 2016. Most winners opt for cash prizes, which would be $546.8 million for Wednesday's Powerball and $716.3 million for the next Mega Millions drawing. Mega Millions and Powerball are both played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The jackpot for the next Powerball drawing, on Saturday, will be an estimated $20 million, with a cash value of $15 million.

There's a winning ticket for the $730 million Powerball jackpot, the first to get the top prize in months. Winning numbers for Wednesday night's Powerball drawing were: 40-53-60-68-69 and a Powerball of 22. The biggest prize ever was a $1.58 billion Powerball jackpot won by three people in 2016. Most winners opt for cash prizes, which would be $546.8 million for Wednesday's Powerball and $716.3 million for the next Mega Millions drawing. Mega Millions and Powerball are both played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

It had been more than four months since anyone won the Powerball, allowing the game's jackpot to grow so large. Just who will collect the Powerball prize may never be known: Maryland is one of the states that allows winners to remain anonymous. The Powerball jackpot came only a day after nobody won the $970 million Mega Millions prize, the third-largest prize in U.S. history. The biggest prize was a $1.58 billion Powerball jackpot won by three people in 2016. After the Powerball win, the new jackpot has a $15 million cash value.

There were no winning tickets sold for Tuesday night's estimated $865 million Mega Millions jackpot, so the top prize for Friday's drawing surged to at least $970 million. A $970 million payout would be Mega Millions' second largest, behind only a $1.54 billion bonanza won in 2018. Each Mega Millions ticket costs $2 and winners must match six numbers, including the Mega Ball, to take home the full sum. Tuesday's Mega Millions winning numbers10, 19, 26, 28, 50Mega Ball: 16Megaplier: 2xMega Millions tickets are are sold in 44 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The odds of winning a jackpot are overwhelmingly slim at 1 in 302.5 million for Mega Millions and 1 in 292.2 million for Powerball.

Hardik Kalra, of Des Moines, Iowa, poses for a photo with his Mega Millions and Powerball lottery tickets. The Powerball jackpot is the fifth-largest ever, and it will come only a day after nobody won the even-larger Mega Millions prize, which now stands at $970 million. The biggest prize was a $1.58 billion Powerball jackpot won by three people in 2016. Most winners opt for cash prizes, which for Mega Millions would be $716.3 million and $546 million for Powerball. Mega Millions and Powerball are both played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

There were no winning tickets sold for Tuesday night's estimated $865 million Mega Millions jackpot, so the top prize for Friday's drawing surged to at least $970 million. A $970 million payout would be Mega Millions' second largest, behind only a $1.54 billion bonanza won in 2018. Each Mega Millions ticket costs $2 and winners must match six numbers, including the Mega Ball, to take home the full sum. Tuesday's Mega Millions winning numbers10, 19, 26, 28, 50Mega Ball: 16Megaplier: 2xMega Millions tickets are are sold in 44 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The odds of winning a jackpot are overwhelmingly slim at 1 in 302.5 million for Mega Millions and 1 in 292.2 million for Powerball.

One of the largest jackpots in U.S. history will grow even larger since there was no winner for Friday's drawing of the Mega Millions' $750 million top prize. Mega Millions estimated its next top prize would be $850 million, which would be the third-largest of all time. Lottery players still have a chance to win big with Saturday's drawing for a $640 million Powerball top prize, the eighth-largest jackpot. The estimated cash prize for the next Mega Millions jackpot is $628.2 million. Mega Millions and Powerball are both played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

And since no one picked all the winning numbers in Mega Millions on Friday night, that’s up to a whopping $850 million. You may have won something Saturday night: Here are the Powerball numbers, so check that ticket anyway: 14-20,-39-65,-67, and a Powerball of 2. The Mega Millions prize, $850 million, is the second largest prize in game history. The odds of winning Mega Millions are 1 in 302 million and those folks that took home $1 million by matching five numbers? Winning any prize in Mega Millions, according to lottery officials, is 1 in 24.

One of the largest jackpots in U.S. history will grow even larger since there was no winner for Friday's drawing of the Mega Millions' $750 million top prize. Mega Millions estimated its next top prize would be $850 million, which would be the third-largest of all time. Lottery players still have a chance to win big with Saturday's drawing for a $640 million Powerball top prize, the eighth-largest jackpot. The estimated cash prize for the next Mega Millions jackpot is $628.2 million. Mega Millions and Powerball are both played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

MIAMI – Forgive us if this doesn’t get you quite as excited as the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots in the news, but a Miami man has scored a $1 million top prize on a scratch-off ticket. Jaunza Kurtz, 60, hit it big on a $5 ticket in the $1,000,000 Monopoly Jackpot game, Florida Lottery officials announced. Kurtz bought the lucky ticket from Murphy USA at 17680 NW 2nd Ave. in Miami Gardens. According to Florida Lottery, scratch-offs make up about 75% of their ticket sales and generated over $1 billion for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund in fiscal year 2019-20. ALSO SEEMiami man starts 2021 with $1 million scratch-off prizeFort Lauderdale man wins $5 million top prize on scratch-off from Publix

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, file photo, a customer shows off a Mega Millions lottery ticket after purchasing it, in Orlando, Fla. The next drawing for Mega Millions is Friday night, when a $750 million prize will be up for grabs. The next Mega Millions drawing is Friday night, when an estimated $750 million prize will be up for grabs. The drawing for an estimated $640 million Powerball jackpot will be Saturday night. Your odds of winning either jackpot is exceedingly small, at 1 in 292.2 million for Powerball and 1 in 302.5 million for Mega Millions.

A billboard advertises the jackpots of the Powerball and Mega Millions lotteries, in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Numbers for Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing were: 4-19-23-25-49 and a Powerball of 14. The Powerball prize drawing was only a day after no one won a $625 million Mega Millions jackpot, causing that prize to grow to $750 million ahead of the next drawing on Friday night. The Mega Millions prize is now the fifth-largest in U.S. history. Mega Millions and Powerball are both played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

A billboard advertises the jackpots of the Powerball and Mega Millions lotteries, in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Winning numbers for Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing were: 4-19-23-25-49 and a Powerball of 14. The Powerball prize drawing comes only a day after no one won a $625 million Mega Millions jackpot, causing that prize to grow to $750 million ahead the next drawing on Friday night. The Mega Millions prize is now the fifth-largest in U.S. history. Mega Millions and Powerball are both played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The Mega Millions $625 million jackpot is the largest lottery prize in nearly two years. The winning numbers in Tuesday night’s drawing of the Mega Millions game were: 12-14-26-28-33, Mega Ball: 09. Nearly all jackpot winners actually take the cash option, which would be an estimated $458.8 million for Mega Millions and $411.4 million for Powerball. They're even steeper for Mega Millions, at one in 302.5 million. Mega Millions and Powerball are both played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

A digital billboard in Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, shows jackpots for the Mega Millions and Powerball games. Lottery players have a chance to win the largest jackpots in nearly two years as Mega Millions has grown to $600 million and Powerball has climbed to $550 million. The projected Mega Millions grand prize is the eighth largest in U.S. history, and the Powerball jackpot is the 12th biggest. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are one in 292.2 million, and the chances are even worse for Mega Millions at one in 302.5 million. Mega Millions and Powerball are both played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – The Powerball jackpot rolled over to $550 million Saturday night when there was no grand prize winner. Saturday night's jackpot was worth $470 million. (WPLG)The last big Powerball jackpot was in March of 2019 when $768.4 million was won in Wisconsin. No one picked all of Friday night’s winning numbers, so that jackpot has reached $600 million, for only the fourth time in that game’s history. Powerball was introduced in January of 2009 with an estimated $105 million jackpot, while Mega Millions had its first drawing on May 17, 2013, with the win estimated at $190 million.

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – Publix stores were lucky for Powerball ticket buyers in Wednesday’s drawing. Three Publix stores in Florida sold winning Powerball tickets, but the big winner? Boynton Beach, where the nation’s lone winning ticket was sold at the 4770 North Congress Avenue supermarket for a win of (wait for it) $168.5 million. In Sunny Isles Beach, someone bought a Powerball ticket that won them $100,000 at Publix at 18320 Collins Avenue. Two $50,000 Powerball tickets from the same drawing were sold at a Publix in Poinciana, Fla., and another in Gainesville.

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – The winner of a $1 million Powerball Jackpot prize bought the lucky ticket in Broward County’s city of Coconut Creek, the Florida Lottery announced on Thursday night. The owner of M&S Food Store, at 4400 West Sample Rd., will receive $1,000 for selling the winning ticket. The winner of the $394 million jackpot bought the ticket at a 7-Eleven in Bonita Springs, a city in southwest Florida. The owner of that store will receive $100,000.

(KMOV) -- A bartender in Missouri won't soon forget a tip one of her regular customers left for her: a Powerball ticket that won $50,000. The next day, the bar's lottery terminal alerted them that they had sold a big winning ticket. It turns out that winning ticket was Russey's. Her tickets matched four of the five white-ball number drawn on Oct. 19, plus the Powerball. Missouri Lottery said Russey's $50,000 ticket is the 40th sold in Missouri, and the second sold in O'Fallon in 2019.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Lottery players will have a shot at a $700 million Powerball jackpot that ranks as the second-largest in U.S. history. The jackpot is second only to a $1.6 billion prize won in January 2016. The $700 million prize reflects the annuity option, paid over 29 years. Odds of winning the jackpot are one in 292.2 million. Powerball is played in 44 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

MIAMI – It's time again to start thinking about which private island you'll buy as the Powerball jackpot has grown to almost half-a-billion dollars. After more than two months without a winner, the Powerball jackpot has grown to $435 million. Of course, the numbers are not close (yet) to the record $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot back won with 3 tickets back in 2016, but it is not too early to dream. If the numbers stay the way they are, a cash value payout of Saturday's jackpot would come to $237.1 million. As always, you can watch the Powerball drawing at 10:59 p.m. on Saturday on Local 10.