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$1.3B Powerball prize is largest jackpot ever

OMAHA, Neb. — Disappointed you didn't win the Powerball jackpot this weekend? Don't be.

Lottery officials say the prize has swelled to an estimated $1.3 billion — the world's largest. Ever. “Biggest jackpot in the history of the world. Absolutely confirmed,” Texas official Gary Grief said.

The jackpot is so big that billboards have to advertise the price as $999 million because they're not built to show billions. The lottery computers will handle the decimal point without a problem.

No one matched all six Powerball numbers Saturday night, leading to the astronomical prize. And that is all but certain to grow before the next drawing Wednesday. The odds to win are one in 292.2 million. Seventy-five percent of all the possible combinations were purchased before Saturday's drawing, Grief said, and he expects that enough tickets will be sold to cover about 80 percent by Wednesday. About 95 percent of Powerball tickets have computer-generated numbers.

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