Powerball jackpot grows to $1.7B for Wed., Christmas Eve
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Another chance to test your luck: the Powerball jackpot keeps growing, and tonight there is a drawing for more than $1.6 billion. Link:
So far, it’s the 5th-largest jackpot in U.S. history after more than three months without a Powerball winner. The game’s long odds created a massive windfall that has enticed people to splurge on $2 tickets ahead of the live drawing at 10:59 p.m. ET Monday night.
The chances of winning the Powerball Grand Prize is much smaller than being struck by lightening, killed in a shark attack, or born on a Leap Day.
The Powerball jackpot is now the fourth largest in history at $1.6 billion, but your chance of nabbing the winning ticket is equivalent to choosing a single marked dollar bill from a stack 19 miles high — more than the height of 115 Statues of Liberty.
After no grand prize winner on Dec. 22, the Powerball drawing for Dec. 24 is at $1.7 billion — the 4th-largest jackpot in the game's history.
No one claimed the top prize in the Dec. 10 drawing so the Dec. 13 prize will be more than $1 billions, according to the Michigan Lottery.