Powerball jackpot soars to $950 million, making it the sixth-largest in game’s history<\/a><\/p>\nAs ticket sales climbed this week, game officials raised the estimated Saturday night jackpot to $1 billion from $950 million, before taxes.<\/p>\n
Powerball ticket sales are skyrocketing in Washington and across the country. If there is just one winner, they could take the billion-dollar prize in 30 payments or one lump sum of $453 million.<\/p>\n
The odds of matching all six numbers, of course, are daunting: 1 in 292.2 million<\/p>\n
But local players say they already have plans of the big payout.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll I know is I would probably stop working for awhile until I found something I could do that I\u2019m passionate about. That would be nice,\u201d said John Olsen outside a convivence store.<\/p>\n
\u201cBuy a house for sure. Invest for retirement, and that\u2019s it pretty much,\u201d said Romero.<\/p>\n
No one has hit the Powerball jackpot since May 31. That has boosted the current jackpot to the billion-dollar mark.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the 6th-largest Powerball prize ever. The biggest was a little over $2 billion, won by one person in California back in 2022.<\/p>\n
A huge return on a $2 investment.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot that expensive. I do it occasionally. If it happens, great, awesome. It would be life changing,\u201d said Olsen.<\/p>\n
A prize that could make this the Labor Day weekend that lasts for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 A billion-dollar prize is on the line this Labor Day weekend. Enough money that you would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[78144,28,78143,55115,12319,52263,35026,38762,2002],"class_list":["post-121873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-billion-dollar","tag-business","tag-jackpot","tag-labor-day","tag-odds","tag-powerball","tag-prize","tag-ticket-sales","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121873","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=121873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}