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(NEXSTAR) – Powerball frenzy is sweeping the nation as the lottery game’s jackpot hits $1.9 billion, a record-breaking prize after more than three dozen drawings without a winner. Want to try your luck without waiting in line at a grocery store or gas station? Here’s how you can.

Powerball is played in 45 states and Washington, D.C. In select states, residents can purchase their tickets online.

In some states, like Colorado, Powerball players can use Lotto.com, which purchases tickets and sends digital images to the player to confirm purchase. Players in New Jersey, New York, and Texas can also use this service, according to Lotto.com.

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Residents in Oregon also have access to a courier service, theLotter Oregon. In Oklahoma and Indiana, the state lottery allows you to build your ticket on its app but requires you to visit a retailer or lottery vending machine to print your ticket.

Some state lotteries sell tickets on their own websites, like Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Washington, D.C. residents can also purchase tickets online. Most of these states require you to create an account with them before purchasing draws.

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Lotteries in these states do not offer players the opportunity to purchase Powerball tickets online: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

After Saturday’s Powerball drawing resulted in no winners, the jackpot rose to $1.9 billion, surpassing the previous record of $1.586 billion in 2016. The jackpot could grow even further ahead of the next drawing, which will be held at 10:59 p.m. ET Monday night.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Saturday’s Powerball drawing is the largest jackpot in history after no one matched all six numbers in Wednesday’s drawing.

The Powerball jackpot is now estimated at $1.6 billion with a cash option of $782.4 million for the next drawing at 10:59 p.m. on Saturday. If winners choose to take the full jackpot, the money would be paid out in 30 payments over 29 years, with a 5% annual increase every year until the final payment.

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Powerball ticket sales close at 10 p.m. on the day of each drawing and occur every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, according to the Ohio Lottery. NBC4i.com will have the winning numbers once they are drawn.

Saturday’s jackpot is the largest jackpot in Powerball history and the largest in U.S. lottery history. The previous record was a $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot won by three ticketholders in 2016.

No one has won the Powerball jackpot since Aug. 3 when a winning ticket for $206.9 million was sold in Pennsylvania. On Wednesday, for the 39th time, no ticket matched the winning numbers.

Wednesday’s winning numbers were 02, 11, 22, 35 and 60, the Powerball 23 and the Power Play 2X. While no one won the big money, 16 tickets matched the five winning numbers, netting $1 million each. The tickets were sold in Arizona, California (2 tickets), Colorado, Georgia (2 tickets), Maryland (2 tickets), Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey (2 tickets) New York. Oregon, Texas and Virginia. Three tickets — one each in Arkansas, Montana and New Jersey — matched the five winning numbers and the Power Play, doubling the prize to $2 million.

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More than 7.2 million tickets won at least one prize in Wednesday’s drawing for a total of $74.9 million. Powerball said players have a 1 in 24.0 chance of winning at least one prize. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.

Powerball is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The first Powerball drawing was held on April 19, 1992.

To play Powerball, you must be 18 years of age or older and live in one of the 43 eligible US states, the District of Columbia, or the US Virgin Islands. If you’re eligible, you can buy a ticket at any authorized lottery retailer, like a local drugstore, gas station, or grocery store that sells lottery tickets, for $2. When you buy a ticket, you’ll choose 6 numbers—5 numbers between 1 and 69 and 1 number between 1 and 26. The goal of the game is to have your numbers match the numbers on the balls that are randomly selected during the Powerball drawing. If all of your numbers match the drawn numbers, you win the jackpot! Your first 5 numbers don’t need to be in the same order as the numbers that are drawn, but your sixth number (the Powerball number), must match the number on the red ball. Even if all of your numbers aren’t drawn, you still have a chance to win smaller prizes. If you match just the red ball or the red ball and 1 white ball, you win $4. If you match the red ball and 2 white balls or just 3 white balls, you win $7. Matching the red ball and 3 white balls or just 4 white balls wins you $100. Matching the red ball and 4 white balls wins $50,000, and matching 5 white balls wins $1,000,000. When you’re filling out your ticket, there will be a “Power Play” option for $1 extra. With the Power Play add-on, any non-jackpot prize you win will be multiplied by a 2x, 3x, 4x, or 5x multiplier, selected at random before each drawing. You also have the option to choose “Quick Pick,” or “QP” on your ticket to have the computer randomly assign you numbers instead of choosing your own numbers if you’d like. Each ticket is good for one drawing, although you can fill out the “Multidraw” section on your ticket if you want to pay for multiple drawings. In that case, your ticket is valid for the number of drawings you paid for. Once you have your ticket, tune in to the next Powerball drawing to see if you won. Powerball drawings occur every Wednesday and Saturday night at 10:59 PM Eastern Time. To learn how to tell if you won other prizes based on the numbers you chose, keep reading!

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