Somebody might get a Halloween deal with of a lifetime Monday when Powerball attracts for a jackpot value $1 billion.
The jackpot broke $1 billion after nobody gained Saturday, sport officers mentioned.
It’s the second time {that a} jackpot has handed the $1 billion mark. Winners in California, Florida and Tennessee gained the opposite one — a $1.5 billion jackpot — in 2016.
Monday’s high prize is so massive as a result of nobody has matched all 5 numbers and a powerball since Aug. 3, nearly three months in the past.
The chances of profitable the jackpot is 1 in 292.2 million. These are far longer odds than the possibility of being struck by lightning in the USA in any given yr, which is round 1 million.
