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Business owner Joe Chahayed holds a check outside Joe’s Service Center in Altadena, northeast of Los Angeles, Nov. 8, 2022. His sons, Joe Chahayed Jr. and Daniel Chahayed, stand at left and right, respectively. California lottery officials, far left, David Kauls, CA Lottery sales manager, and Carolyn Becker, deputy director of public affairs and communications, present a CA Lottery’s retailer selling bonus check for “One Million U.S. dollars,” to Joe’s Service Center for selling the record $2.04 billion Powerball winning ticket. (Damian Dovarganes/AP)
Feeling lucky? Lottery players have a chance to win one of the biggest prizes in U.S. history on Wednesday night, with a $850 million Powerball jackpot on the line.
If won, the prize would be the fourth largest for the lottery and the ninth largest in the U.S., with the jackpot growing since someone last matched all six numbers and won on July 19. Since then, there have been 29 drawings without a big payout.
It’s the latest in a string of massive jackpots in recent months.
Just this year, three jackpots have surpassed the $1 billion mark, a feat that has only happened eight times total. Those won this year include a Mega Millions jackpot worth $1.35 billion in January, a $1.08 billion Powerball prize in July and, most recently, a $1.58 billion Mega Millions jackpot in Florida this August that became the third-biggest lottery prize ever won.
The biggest jackpot in U.S. lottery history was a Powerball prize won in California in November 2022, with a record payout worth a whopping $2.04 billion.
The Powerball drawing takes place Wednesday at 10 p.m. CDT. Ahead of the drawing, here are the top 10 biggest lottery jackpots in U.S. history.
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