DETROIT (WWJ) - How would you like to become rich overnight?
The estimated jackpot for Wednesday night’s Powerball lottery game has climbed to $750 million, making it the fourth-largest jackpot in U.S. history.
The cash option is estimated at $465.5 million. The odds of winning are roughly 1 in 292.2 million.
No one has won the Powerball jackpot since the day after Christmas. Twenty-four drawings since then have failed to produce a winner.
The drawing takes place at 10:59 p.m.
The country's largest jackpot was a nearly $1.59 billion Powerball prize drawn on Jan. 13, 2016; three people shared that prize. The nation's second largest lottery prize, a $1.54 billion Mega Millions jackpot, was claimed Oct. 23, 2018 by a South Carolina resident. The third largest jackpot was a $758.7 million Powerball prize on Aug. 23, 2017, claimed by a resident in Massachusets.
The biggest jackpot ever won in Michigan belongs Donald Lawson of Lapeer, who took home a $337 million Powerball jackpot on Aug. 15, 2012.