If you're lucky, you can become a millionaire tonight.
Tonight's Powerball jackpot will be about $250 million.
It's the largest jackpot since changes were made to Powerball recently.
Those changes increased the cost of a ticket to $2, raised the jackpot and grew the second-place prize to $1 million.
To win the jackpot, you have to match all six numbers in tonight's drawing.
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Here is more information from the Virginia Lottery:
Virginia Lottery players are lining up for a piece of the action as the Powerball jackpot has grown to an estimated $250 million for the Wednesday, February 8, drawing. Lottery officials estimate Powerball players in Virginia will buy about 860,000 tickets on Wednesday alone. At peak times on Wednesday, Lottery officials expect to sell about 1,430 Powerball tickets per minute statewide.
If one ticket matches all six numbers in Wednesday’s drawing, the winner will have a choice: Either take the full jackpot in 30 annual payments or choose a one-time cash option of approximately $156 million before taxes.
This is the largest jackpot since changes were made to Powerball that, among other things, increased the size of jackpots, improved the odds of winning prizes, increased the cost of a ticket to $2 and increased the size of the second prize to $1 million.
More than 28,000 tickets purchased in Virginia won prizes in the Saturday, February 4, Powerball drawing.
Powerball has been hot in Virginia since it came to the Commonwealth in January 2010. In that time, four people have won $1 million in Virginia, with tickets they bought in Martinsville, Chesapeake, Arlington and Chester.
Powerball drawings are held at 10:59 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays. Powerball drawings are broadcast on TV stations across Virginia and live on www.valottery.com. For more information on Powerball, visit www.powerball.com.
The Virginia Lottery generates approximately $1.2 million per day for Virginia’s K-12 public schools. Operating entirely on revenue from the sale of Lottery products, rather than tax dollars, the Virginia Lottery raised more than $444 million for Virginia’s public schools in Fiscal Year 2011. That represents about 8 percent of state funding for public education in Virginia. For more information, visit www.valottery.com. Follow the Virginia Lottery on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Please play responsibly.
