Powerball Jackpot

Lottery ticket buyers have to suspend their belief in math to drop $2 on an infinitesimal chance to win the Powerball jackpot, but in Nevada, they also have to drive across the desert and wait in lines that can stretch for hours.

With up to $1.4 billion at stake in Wednesday's Powerball, questions about the drawing seem to be as abundant as the convenience-store kiosks offering tickets for the record-breaking jackpot.

The payout for Saturday’s Powerball lottery is now up to a record setting $700 million and could continue to grow. Not surprisingly, lots of New Jersey residents are making plans for how they’ll spend all of that loot if they manage to pick the right numbers.

The record-breaking $700 million Powerball jackpot is the stuff of dreams, but it all boils down to math. From the huge prize to the enormous odds against winning it, Saturday night's drawing is a numbers game that gives players good reason to brush up on their algebra, maybe as they stand in line to buy a ticket.

A man with a winning $259 million Powerball ticket claimed what officials are calling the largest jackpot ever won in Tennessee, and says he plans to use most of the money to support the performing arts.

The Powerball jackpot is climbing again, though it will take some time before it breaks the kind of records that are seemingly smashed with more frequency.

Maybe you’re like me, very much in the minority who’s not playing Powerball, because I don’t want to change my life in one fell swoop. Alright, truth be told, my wife bought a ticket. And I’m not going to be throwing it out anytime soon since she’s the one who bought it...

Powerball officials say the jackpot has climbed to an estimated $600 million, making it the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery prize.

The New Jersey man who just won a $338 million Powerball jackpot has resolved a child support debt.

If you had been the lucky winner of the $338 Powerball jackpot, would you continue to work? It seems like a foregone conclusion that virtually all of us would quit, but some people do not want to abandon their hardworking way of life.