The jackpot for the US Powerball has hit an estimated $900m (£688m) - the third highest within the lottery's 30-year historical past.

The enormous whole was raised - from $875m (£668m) - after no ticket matched the profitable mixture in Saturday night time's draw.

The Powerball jackpot was final received on 19 April for a prime prize of practically $253m (£193m), however since then, nobody has claimed the grand prize up to now 37 consecutive attracts.

Monday's prize is the third-highest jackpot since Powerball launched within the US in 1992.

Powerball's largest jackpot - a whopping $2.04bn (£1.76bn) - was received in November final yr, beating the earlier highest whole of $1.6bn (£1.3bn) in 2016.

The sport's odds of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to construct huge prizes that draw extra gamers, from throughout 45 states within the US, in addition to Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

By comparability, the most important UK lottery was a £195m win on the EuroMillions jackpot in July final yr.

While there was no jackpot winner on Saturday, Powerball stated three tickets that matched all 5 white balls are eligible to say $1m (£763m) prizes, together with two in Texas and one in Colorado.

Ticket patrons for Monday's draw have an opportunity at both $900m (£688m) paid out in yearly increments or a $465.1m (£355m), one-time lump sum earlier than taxes.

Nearly all winners go for the money lump sum.

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