No victor in record USA lottery

Ticket sales for the multi-state Powerball lottery soared Saturday, in the largest jackpot in US history which grew to $900 million just hours before Saturday night’s drawing.

The numbers drawn Saturday were 32, 16, 19, 57 and 34.

The odds to win are one in 292.2 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs Powerball.

If you have that much money to throw at something, the one-ticket, one-draw strategy makes no sense because there is a way to guarantee winning a jackpot: Buy enough tickets to cover every possible number combination before a drawing. The Powerball number was 13, with a multiplier of 3.

A ticket qualifies for a $1 million prize if it matches the five white balls without the red Powerball.

The jackpot will be the biggest since a $564.1 million Powerball prize shared by players from North Carolina, Texas and Puerto Rico in February 2015.

But some people in Wisconsin feel like luck is on their side if they buy tickets from their lucky store.

Amidst the Powerball excitement, one ticket matched all numbers in Super Kansas Cash to win a $565,887 cash jackpot.

It wasn’t much longer until Americans had another chance to dream big, again seeing the Mega Millions jackpot balloon to more than $600 million nearly two years later.

In California, players bought a whopping $59.1 million worth of tickets on Saturday by the time sales stopped at 7 p.m.

There is an asterisk next to the “world’s largest” status of Wednesday’s jackpot, however.

And with a record-breaking jackpot on the line, the usual customers are not the only ones buying tickets. “Absolutely confirmed”, Texas Lottery executive director Gary Grief said. Anndrea Smith, 30, said Saturday that she already had spent more than she usually does on Powerball tickets. By making it harder to win a jackpot, the tougher odds made the ever-larger prizes inevitable.

There was no one who won more than $100 in the District.