Between now and Wednesday evening, anyone can walk into a store and buy a lottery ticket for a couple of bucks that has the potential of winning around a half-billion dollars.
With a prize this large, demand for tickets is extremely high, and the media buzz building to a crescendo, this Wednesday’s PowerBall drawing has become the first really big event of 2015.
The winning numbers in Saturday’s drawing were 5, 10, 21 34 and 58, lottery officials said, and the Powerball number was 33.
The biggest Powerball jackpot awarded by the Multi-State Lottery Association was $590.5 million and went to the holder of a single winning ticket in 2013. The association also operates the Mega Millions jackpot, which awarded a top prize of $656 million three years ago.
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