Phil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.
It doesn’t hurt to dream — but for now, dreams are just that for ticket holders hoping to win a $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot that was the subject of Wednesday’s drawing. No one won, again, in the multi-state lottery game that last had a jackpot winner on July 19, according to the game’s website. The new jackpot was estimated to be $1.4 billion, according to its website, which still would rank third of all-time. The last time someone the jackpot was July 19, when a $1.
08 billion jackpot was won in California, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which helps coordinate it. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are a very long 1 in 292.2 million. Powerball, like Mega Millions, years ago made changes to the game that made it harder to win jackpots — which causes them to grow larger — while increasing the chance of winning smaller prizes. Powerball was changed in 2015, and Mega Millions was changed in 2017.
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