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After no one matched all five numbers plus the Powerball in the , the grand prize jumped $100 million overnight. Ticket sales ahead of the Saturday, Aug. 30, draw pushed the total into record numbers: The Powerball grand prize rose from , Aug. 25, to an $850 million grand prize or a cash option of $383.7 million for Wednesday. Then it spiked to $950 million early Thursday, hours after the Aug. 27 drawing. On Friday, Aug. 29, a day before the Aug. 30 drawing, the . The total is now in the Top 10 biggest Powerball lottery jackpots of all-time (see below).

The Powerball jackpot for Saturday climbed

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