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An epic New Year’s Eve celebration could await a potential winner of Saturday night’s Powerball drawing, which offers an estimated $760 million jackpot, the game’s sixth-largest.

The game’s last drawing of 2023 is scheduled for 10:59 p.m. ET.

If no one wins the drawing, the prize will roll over for the next drawing in the new year.  

The last jackpot was claimed in October — after 33 consecutive drawings. That top prize was $1.765 billion, the second highest in the game’s history.

In 2016, Powerball became the first multi-jurisdictional draw game to surpass $1 billion in jackpot winnings, when three tickets split a $1.586 billion prize.

Last year, the game achieved the world record amount for a government lottery jackpot, $2.04 billion. A winning ticket was purchased in California.

This year will close without beating that record, but the numbers were unlikely to disappoint winners: Saturday night’s jackpot is the fourth one this year to exceed $700 million.

Of course, those numbers can be deceiving, as they’re all pretax, and assume winners are willing to take their prizes in annuity payments instead of claiming a much lower upfront sum.

In the case of Saturday’s jackpot, the pretax, upfront sum is estimated to be $383.6 million.

Powerball has produced growing jackpots and expanding stretches on the calendar without a winner, intentionally so. The game was redesigned in 2015 to grow its jackpot.

Victor Matheson, an economics professor at College of the Holy Cross, said earlier this year that organizers have added number balls to drawings, doubled the price of tickets to $2, and shifted more money to the grand prize, bolstering the era of the big jackpot.

The game started in 1992 with 14 states and the District of Columbia and now has near-total coverage of the United States, the professor noted.

It all adds up to more anticipation and excitement, but odds are slim: 1 in 292.2 million. The odds of becoming president are better (assuming everyone in the U.S. has an equal chance to win).

“What that means is that you can have a really, really, really hard-to-win lottery,” Matheson said.

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