(CNN) — Lottery hopefuls are taking their shot at Saturday night’s estimated $1 billion Powerball jackpot – the 14th US lottery prize to ever reach $1 billion and the second to do so this year.

The jackpot rose after nobody won Wednesday night’s $930 million drawing .

This is the second jackpot to hit at least $1 billion this year. Two winners – in Texas and Missouri – split Powerball’s $1.787 billion prize in September. That was the second largest jackpot in US lottery history; the largest, a $2.04 billion Powerball prize, was won in 2022.

Billion-dollar jackpots have been in the US only for the past decade or so, with the first in 2016 from Powerball, valued at $1.586 billion .

Whether winners actually take an advertised jackpot value depends on how they choose to be paid.

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