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Where to Buy a $2 Chance at $400 Million

Find out where to buy a Powerball ticket for Wednesday night's drawing for a $400 million jackpot.

Written by by Robert Gates

It feels like just yesterday that we were all giddy about a $450 million Powerball jackpot.

A little more than a month later, there's again a top lottery prize up for grabs. Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot is estimated at $400 million, making it the fifth-largest lottery jackpot in United States history. All four of the other, higher jackpots have come in the past two years.

    If nobody wins on Wednesday night, it is likely that Saturday night's drawing could approach a record amount. May's $590 million jackpot ballooned from $363 million in the drawing three days earlier.

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    A winner on Wednesday night would have the option of choosing annual payments or a lump sum payout of $223.6 million before taxes.

    Powerball tickets are $2 and the game is played in Massachusetts and 42 other states, including Florida, Texas, California and New York.

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    In Holliston and Hopkinton, some of the stores you can get tickets from are:

    Holliston
    • Casey's 81 Railroad Street
    • Country Farm 429 Washington Street
    • Holliston Gas 585 Norfolk Street.

    Hopkinton
    • Collella's Super Market 61 Main Street
    • Dynasty Restaurant 77 West Main Street
    • Old Town Liquors 70 Main Street
    • Price Chopper 167 W. Main Street.

    A full list of stores is available on the state lottery's website.

    Wonder what happens to the folks who hit it big? Browse the Huffington Post’s collection of lottery winners’ stories.

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