Did anyone win the $785M Powerball jackpot?

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The last time someone hit the Powerball jackpot was back in July, when one very lucky lottery player won $1.08 billion.

WASHINGTON, USA — The Powerball jackpot is offering the ninth-largest lottery jackpot for Monday's drawing.

The big prize leaped to an estimated $785 million after Saturday's drawing failed to produce a jackpot winner.A winner, when one is eventually picked, will be able to claim monthly payments for part of the $785 million or take the lump sum of $367 million. The jackpot has been rising for weeks after a streak of drawings without a grand prize winner. .

Lottery players must match all five white balls and the Powerball to win the jackpot. The winner can choose to get the full amount through an annuity option — a sum paid out over 29 years. However, winners typically opt for the cash option., which was the game's third largest prize in history. Since then, there have been 27 straight Powerball drawings without a grand prize winner. , the largest in the game's history.were 50-10-36-22-12 Powerball 4 and Power Play 2.

Over the past few years, huge lottery jackpots have become more common as lottery officials have changed the rules and ticket prices to boost top prizes. Powerball's biggest change came in 2021 when officials decided to add a Monday drawing to its weekly lineup of Wednesday and Saturday evening drawings. At the time of the announcement, Powerball proclaimed the addition of the Monday drawing would lead to"larger, faster-growing jackpots."

 

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