Powerball jackpot grows to $400 million ahead of Saturday's drawing
ABC News
The lottery game marks its 30th anniversary this week.
The Powerball jackpot has grown to an estimated $400 million, as the game marks 30 years of drawings.
The American lottery game's first drawing was held on April 22, 1992, with tickets selling for $1. Fourteen states and the District of Columbia initially participated. A winning ticket in that first drawing was sold in Indiana for the $5.9 million jackpot (about $12 million today).
The next drawing is Saturday and has a $240.8 million cash value, after 28 drawings in a row without a jackpot winner. Tickets are $2 and sold in 45 states, as well as D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Since the Powerball started, there have been 393 jackpot-winning tickets sold totaling $25 billion in prizes. The most recent jackpot was hit in the Feb. 14 drawing, with a ticket sold in Connecticut winning $185.3 million.
