A single winning ticket was sold for Powerball's Christmas Eve jackpot of $1.817 billion — the second-largest U.S. lottery prize ever. The winner, who has not been publicly identified, bought the ...

The Powerball jackpot keeps getting bigger. The $1.7 billion prize is now the fourth-largest jackpot in U.S. history. “The holidays are already a special time, and a Powerball jackpot of this size ...

Another California Powerball player is more than $2 million richer after their ticket matched all five white balls to win $1 million, but no one took home the top prize of $1.43 billion for the ...

One lucky winner stood to take home a one-time cash prize worth $689.3 million if they chose a one-time payout. To win Powerball, players have to buy a ticket matching all five numbers and the ...

This year has seen some amazing advancements in fundamental mathematics. Researchers have made breakthroughs in geometry, topology, chaos theory, and more. And a startling three of our top 10 ...

The estimated Powerball jackpot is $875 million. The lump sum payment before taxes would be about $403.6 million. The Double Play is a feature that gives players in select locations another chance to ...

Player can pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers — five different numbers from 1 to 70 (the white balls) and one number from 1 to 24 (the gold Mega Mall). Players can also select the ...

The Mega Millions jackpot rose to $980 million for the drawing on Friday, Nov. 14, after no one matched all the winning numbers in the drawing on Tuesday, Nov. 11. If someone matches all six numbers, ...

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No one won the $800 million Mega Millions jackpot from the Tuesday, Nov. 4, drawing. The winning numbers for the Nov. 4 drawing were 11, 14, 17, 50, 57, and the Mega Ball was 6. The jackpot for the ...

No one won the $754 million Mega Millions jackpot in Friday night's drawing. The winning numbers for Friday, Oct. 31, were 2, 24, 52, 66, 68, and the Mega Ball was 9. The jackpot for the next drawing ...

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