(NewsNation) — Two people played their cards right in Missouri and Texas Saturday night, winning the second-largest-in-history Powerball drawing, and they will split the $1.8 billion jackpot.

Numbers were selected late Saturday: 11, 23, 44, 61, 62 and Powerball 17.

The prize ballooned to that near-historic sum after the lottery held more than 40 consecutive drawings without anyone matching six numbers. The lottery rolls over the winnings when no one hits the jackpot.

The game's terrible odds of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to generate big jackpots and ever-larger prizes. The largest jackpot on record, $2.04 billion, was drawn in 2022 and went to a California ticket buyer.

More than 9.9 million tickets won cash prizes in last night’s drawing, according to a Powerball press release.

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