Power(ball) move!

Two lucky Powerball players in Missouri and Texas won an estimated $1.79 billion jackpot Saturday night, the second-largest prize in game history, ending a historic run that spanned over three months.

The winning numbers were 11, 23, 44, 61, 62 and the red Powerball 17.

The new billionaires will split the estimated jackpot equally, earning $895 million, according to game rules.

Odds of winning the Powerball grand prize are an astronomical 1 in 292.2 million. dennizn – stock.adobe.com

The transformational win is the second-largest jackpot in the game’s history, surpassing the $1.765 billion prize that California man Theodorus Struyck and his group claimed in 2023.

The then 65-year-old resident of Frazier Park, a mountain town 73 miles north of Los Angeles, chos

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