Saturday’s Powerball jackpot, with an estimated payout of $635 million, ranks among the ten largest pots in the history of the drawing. The drawing is set for 11 p.m. ET, and the pot is the sixth-largest in Powerball history after 39 consecutive drawings without a grand-prize winner. Following an earlier total of $620 million, a […]
Lottery officials say a woman in Germany carried a winning ticket in her purse for weeks without realizing it was worth about 33 million euros or $39 million. Lotto Bayern said Wednesday that the 45-year-old woman was the sole winner of a draw on June 9, having correctly guessed seven fields on a German lottery […]
The same week that a Maryland couple won a $730 million Powerball jackpot, Americans have a shot at $1 billion worth of Mega Millions prize money. A winner of Friday’s jackpot, if he or she took the cash option, would receive $739.6 million – before taxes. In 2020, overall, there were five Mega Millions winners, […]