Jackpot Powerball Rises to $ 700 Million
Jackpot of one of the most popular lotteries in the USA Powerball reached $ 700 million on Thursday, lottery representatives say.
This is the second largest record among any American lottery. The chance to win a lottery is 1 to 292 millions.
However, $ 700 million is not the ultimate dream. The largest jackpot of $ 1.6 billion at the same time won the 3 ticket in 13 January 2016 of the year.
Powerball being played in the 44 states, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
Most of the lucky winners of jackpots live in the state of Pennsylvania. According to statistics, in 70% of cases they won tickets, the numbers in which they trusted to choose a computer. At the same time, almost half of the winners managed to spend their winnings over 5 years.
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