After the pot built for months, passing $1 billion dollars in reward, a single player in California walked away with the third largest PowerBall jackpot and sixth largest U.S lottery jackpot ever won
sold the only ticket in the country to match all six numbers in the Wednesday night PowerBall draw.
. The jackpot sits right behind last year’s $2.04 billion record and and the $1.586 billion PowerBall jackpot won in 2016.As the jackpot grew, attracting players from all 45 states where the PowerBall is played, many players fell just short of the grand prize., stores across the country sold 36 tickets that won $1 million and three tickets that won $2 million. There were also 195 tickets that won $50,000 prizes, and 62 tickets that won $100,000 prizes.
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