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SuperLotto Plus is a lotto game played in the style of Mega Millions and Powerball. SuperLotto Plus is drawn every Wednesday and Saturday. The game began in 1986 as Lotto 6/49 (which was played similarly to the Canadian version of the game), then changed to SuperLotto somewhere in the 90s (with the matrix of 6/51).
California Lottery officials on Saturday announced that a winning SuperLotto Plus ticket worth $82 million was sold in Victorville.
After no ticket was sold for Tuesday's jackpot, the top prize has been pushed to $1.28 billion for Friday's drawing, making it the second-largest jackpot in the game's history.
Powerball ticket. After a nearly three-month stretch with no one matching all six numbers, we finally have a winner of the record-setting $1.73 billion Powerball jackpot.
Some U.S. lotteries also offer a smaller "mega-number" game. For example, California offers SuperLotto Plus, where the first five numbers are drawn from a set of 47 white balls; its Mega number is drawn from a set of 27 purple balls by a second machine. Pennsylvania once offered a jackpot game where the order drawn did matter.
Rank Jackpot Cash value Tickets Per ticket Game Date Location Notes 1 $2.04b $997.6m 1 $997.6m Powerball: Nov 7, 2022 CA: Largest jackpot for a single ticket; largest cash value for a single ticket.
Powerball is an American lottery game offered by 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and overseen by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), which also manages other large jackpot games such as the Mega Millions.
All five numbers matched, but the winning ticket was missing the red Powerball.