An Oregon Powerball player won the $1.3 billion jackpot on Sunday.
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Nobody has won the jackpot since Jan. 1 in Michigan when a single ticket was worth $842 million.
It has been three months since a Powerball ticket had all the correct numbers to win $824 million on Jan. 1 in Michigan.
The jackpot rolls over to an estimated $975 million for the Monday drawing.
This spring is largely a repeat of last summer, when both lotteries had jackpots top $1 billion within 20 days. Ticket sales are strong despite the long odds.
The elusive jackpots for the two national lotteries are each stretching into the billon-dollar range.
The Friday Mega Millions jackpot will be worth nearly $1 billion while the Saturday Powerball has risen to $750 million.
Both the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots are well into nine-figure territory, but they have several weeks before they would approach the U.S. lottery record.
The most recent Powerball jackpot winner was Jan. 1, 2024, when $842.4 million was claimed in Michigan. It was the fifth-largest prize in Powerball history.
One ticket in New York did get all five regular numbers and with a megaplier of 5x, the holder will get $5 million before taxes.