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The Powerball jackpot has grown again. Wednesday’s drawing will now be worth at least $1.5 billion.
In Michigan, people have bought 7.1 million tickets for the Powerball drawing. 3.2 million tickets were sold on Tuesday alone, at a clip of 275,000 tickets an hour.
The size of the jackpot could grow even more by Wednesday’s drawing.
The highest winning ticket in any lottery game before this was $656 million in a Mega Millions game.
The last Michigan player to win a Powerball jackpot was Julie Leach, of Three Rivers. In September, Leach won the game’s $310.5 million jackpot.
