WASHINGTON — Check your tickets: Could you be a winner in Wednesday's $779 million Powerball drawing?

While nobody took home the jackpot, there were some big winners, including two $1 million winners in California and Florida and a $2 million ticket sold in Kentucky with the Power Play add-on.

The jackpot now rises to an estimated $820 million for Saturday's drawing.

The prize has grown to become the second-largest Powerball jackpot this year, though the prize pales in comparison to September's historic drawing , when two tickets sold in Missouri and Texas split a $1.8 billion jackpot — the second-largest U.S. lottery prize ever won.

The jackpot was last won Sept. 6, when those two winners overcame odds of 1 in 292.2 million.

The largest Powerball jackpot remains $2.04 billion, wo

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