A person passes by an electronic sign displaying a $1.4 billion jackpot in the Powerball lottery drawing in Queens, New York City, on September 3. Kylie Cooper/Reuters/File

Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing went without a jackpot winner, pushing the top prize to an estimated $1 billion for Saturday. It’s the second largest of this year, lagging only the $1.787 billion Powerball jackpot in September, claimed by two winners in Missouri and Texas.

If it seems like jackpots have been getting larger over the past few years, they have. The first US lottery jackpot over $1 billion came in 2016, when winners in Florida, California and Tennessee split a $1.586 billion Powerball prize. The current Powerball jackpot will be the 14th ever top US lottery prize of at least $1 billion, and th

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