Iowa Lottery: play responsibly for tonight’s billion-dollar jackpot
The Powerball jackpot is now estimated at more than one billion dollars for tonight’s drawing. Iowa Lottery CEO Matt Strawn says they always remind people that buying more tickets doesn’t increase your odds of winning.
“It just takes one $2 ticket to win a jackpot prize, a life-changing prize of this amount,” Strawn says.
The jackpot is at $1.25 billion for the drawing at 9:59 tonight. Strawn discussed the issue during Tuesday’s Lottery Commission meeting and says the big jackpots draw in people who don’t normally play. He says the message is the same no matter the size of the prize.
“Play responsibly, even in these billion-dollar jackpot announcements,” he says.
Whoever wins the jackpot has the option of taking a one-time payment of $572 million. The drawing is at 9:59 p.m. Iowa time and you must buy a ticket in Iowa by 8:59 p.m. to be eligible for tonight’s drawing.
