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Powerball's massive jackpot will rollover and increase after Saturday's drawing produced no winning tickets, according to the game's website. The $1.4-billion jackpot now grows to $1.55 billion but remains the third-largest in Powerball's history . The last time someone won the Powerball jackpot after the July 19 drawing for the $1.08 billion pot. The winning ticket then was sold in California.
“All of these things have been engineered by the lottery associations to give you super exciting billion dollar lotteries,” he said. Matheson also said both Powerball and Mega Millions have transcended state lotteries to become national phenomena, which helps the goal of rolling over each drawing's jackpot by spreading the chances of a winning ticket over a wider, coast-to-coast population instead of just one state's.
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