{"id":119265,"date":"2025-08-29T20:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/119265\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T20:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:54:12","slug":"saturdays-powerball-drawing-worth-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/119265\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday’s Powerball drawing worth $1 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT (AP) \u2014 This could buy a lot of Labor Day weekend<\/a> sunblock: Saturday\u2019s Powerball jackpot is estimated at $1 billion, the sixth-largest prize in the game\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Powerball, which costs $2 per ticket, is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The jackpot has been growing<\/a> each week because no one has matched all six numbers since May 31. <\/p>\n

As ticket sales climbed this week, game officials raised the estimated Saturday night jackpot to $1 billion from $950 million, before taxes. Payments would be spread over 30 years, or a winner can choose an immediate lump sum of $453 million, again before taxes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re bringing extra excitement to Labor Day weekend,\u201d said Matt Strawn, head of the Iowa Lottery and chair of Powerball.<\/p>\n

The odds of matching all six numbers, of course, are daunting: 1 in 292.2 million. By comparison, the odds of getting a rare shark bite during a last summer dip in the ocean are much lower, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History.<\/a><\/p>\n

Angela Schwartz, who sells tickets at City Market in downtown Detroit, said the message Friday was consistent: \u201cGive me a lucky Powerball.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if that\u2019s enough for me,\u201d she said with a laugh, referring to the lump-sum payout a winner could get. \u201cIt could pay a few bills.\u201d<\/p>\n

At a Fuel City in Dallas, Duran Hargest let the lottery machine spit out four tickets with random numbers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could be a blessing,\u201d he said of winning the jackpot. \u201cIt could also be a curse, depending on how you use it. I just wanted to make sure if I get it, you know, take care of my family and then probably help others that probably need it, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Powerball and Mega Millions are lottery games with potentially huge jackpots because they are played in multiple states. The top Powerball jackpot was $2.04 billion on Nov. 7, 2022. The largest Mega Millions jackpot was $1.6 billion on Aug. 8, 2023. <\/p>\n

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LaFleur reported from Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 This could buy a lot of Labor Day weekend sunblock: Saturday\u2019s Powerball jackpot is estimated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[76871,28,14271,3505,793,13015,13014,3140,76870,1303,5898,1548,1022,1059,795,76869],"class_list":["post-119265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-angela-schwartz","tag-business","tag-central-america","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-general-news","tag-ia-state-wire","tag-iowa","tag-latin-america","tag-matt-strawn","tag-michigan","tag-puerto-rico","tag-taxes","tag-texas","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-u-s-news","tag-u-s-virgin-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}