The Powerball jackpot has risen to $1.4 billion ahead of Wednesday’s draw

Though scooping the $1.1 billion prize pot would have been a fairy-tale way for someone to round out the long weekend, the absence of a lucky Powerball winner on Monday means that the jackpot has ballooned to an estimated $1.4 billion ahead of Wednesday night’s draw.

The $1.4 billion sum — a calculation based on the winner taking 30 payouts over almost three decades, rather than a smaller lump-sum payment — is staggering, obviously, but a multitude of factors have actually made billion-dollar prizes a lot more common in recent years. Indeed, a winner on Wednesday night would take home the third-biggest Powerball jackpot of the 2020s, and only the fourth-largest overall.

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