Powerball's largest jackpot this year — $700 million — is up for grabs tonight.
ticket sold in Pennsylvania won the last grand prize. The jackpot grew quite a bit in the meantime, and, after 35 consecutive rounds without a grand prize winner, stands at an estimated $700 million ahead of Wednesday night's drawing., which increased the sum from $680 million earlier this week. It is also the fifth-largest Powerball jackpot and eighth-largest U.S. lottery jackpot.
There are nine ways to win some amount of money by entering the game, but in order to take home the grand prize, Powerball players must hold tickets with numbers that match all six picked during a given drawing. On Aug. 3, a player whose Pennsylvania ticket was a perfect match won the jackpot, which, at the time, amounted to $206.9 million.
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