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!Will a $2 Powerball ticket make you a billionaire ? As they say in the lottery business, “ .” A didn't win $1 billion, but theirs did reel-in some big cash in the Saturday, Aug. 30, Powerball drawing.

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 $850 million with a cash option of $383.7 million for that Wednesday before spiking to $950 million 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 o

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