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$430 Million at Stake in Wednesday's Powerball Drawing

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A roughly $430 million jackpot is up for grabs in Wednesday's Powerball drawing.

It would be the tenth-largest jackpot in the game's history, though it won't even be the largest this summer — California resident Jeff Lindsay won just shy of $450 million in June.

The drawing comes after two weeks of lottery one-upsmanship between Powerball and Mega Millions. Each game grew larger as a succession of drawings came up without winners.

That ended Friday, when a ticket in Illinois matched all Mega Millions numbers, making it worth an estimated $393 million, the fifth largest in the game's history.

It was the first week both Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots topped $300 million.

The odds of winning a jackpot are extremely low — one in 292.2 million for Powerball and one in 258.9 million for Mega Millions.



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