US monstrous prize climbed to 1.5 billion

The biggest prize in the history of the lottery, is gradually climbing: Tonight (Tuesday) the prize went up to an all-time amount of a billion and a half dollars.

According to the rules, a single winner could take $ 930 million in cash, or get it to the full value in installments over 29 years. The Powerball lottery will be held tomorrow.

Usually the first lottery prize in the US "Powerball" is 40 million, but after a series of lotteries in which no one won, the prize went to pool.

So far, the highest amount of the lottery was a total of $ 640 million which three tickets together won on March 30, 2012, as part of Powerball.

Powerball is a lotto type game run by the American Association of State Lottery, it incorporates lottery games operators in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and the United States' Virgin Islands.

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