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Powerball on the Rise Again With $400M Jackpot on Wednesday

This is currently the fourth largest Powerball jackpot in history.

Another enormous Powerball jackpot is up for grabs only 40 days after it climbed to $448 million at the beginning of August.

A jackpot winner was not pulled during Saturday night's drawing which was an estimated $317 million jackpot. 

This makes Wednesday night's drawing the fourth largest Powerball drawing in history and the fifth largest lottery jackpot ever, with the title going to a $656 million Mega Millions jackpot in March 2012.

The largest Powerball jackpot, which ballooned to more than a half a billion dollars was drawn on May 18. The $590.5 million jackpot was claimed by Gloria Mackenzie, an 84-year-old Florida resident who took a lump-sum, payout of $370 million.

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

Saturday's winning numbers were 1-17-25-37-44 PB 20.

There were $1 million winners in California, Georgia, Idaho, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Wisconsin.

Powerball is played in 43 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. One ticket cost $2.

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