The Powerball jackpot is now an estimated $1 billion for Saturday night’s drawing.

There was no grand prize winner for Wednesday’s roughly $850 million jackpot, and Powerball initially said the increased jackpot was approximately $950 million. Game leaders reviewed national ticket sales and increased the jackpot, Powerball said Friday.

The estimated cash value of Saturday’s grand prize is $453.1 million. The drawing will take place from the Florida Lottery live draw studio in Tallahassee.

It’s the sixth grand prize to hit the billion-dollar mark in the game’s 33-year history, Powerball said . Four of the five previous billion-plus-jackpot-winning tickets were sold in California, including a single ticket sold in Altadena in 2022 that claimed a $2.04 billion jackpot, the largest in

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