>The 550 million Powerball jackpot numbers will be announced tonight Detonating the nation

> The 550 million Powerball jackpot number was announced tonight, detonating the nation. The Powerball lottery ticket scheduled to be drawn on the evening of the 28th has accumulated a jackpot of 5 on the 27th...

The Powerball Lottery Authority announced on the 27th that lottery ticket sales revenue reached 714 million yuan, and it is expected that sales may exceed 1 billion yuan before the lottery draw on the 28th. If a single lottery winner chooses to receive cash at once, he can receive more than 327 million yuan before tax.

Mary Newbauer, a spokesperson for the Iowa Lottery Bureau, which organizes the Powerball Awards, said that since no one won the lottery on the 24th, the hot sales of lottery tickets have increased the prize money by 175 million yuan. "It is really unprecedented at this moment. The sales of lottery tickets across the country have gone through the roof, so it is difficult to accurately estimate how high the prize money will be."

Newbauer said the prize attracted people from all over the world, and lottery officials received calls or emails from people outside the United States asking if they could buy Powerball tickets from abroad. That's not possible, Newbauer said, and people would have to buy it in the 42 states that issue Powerball tickets, as well as Washington and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The previous largest Powerball jackpot was $365 million in 2006, won by a group of employees at a Conagra, Nebraska, slaughterhouse. In March this year, three people won the largest Mega Millions lottery prize ever in the United States, worth $656 million.

No one has won this Powerball lottery since October 6. When the bonus accumulation is higher, the more people buy it. After the bonus reached 100 million yuan on the 17th, the sales of lottery tickets in the next four days were 70 million yuan; after the bonus accumulation exceeded 300 million yuan on the 24th, the sales of lottery tickets in the next four days exceeded 140 million yuan.

> Iowa Lottery Bureau CEO Ricky said that about 100 million yuan in lottery tickets were bought by those who occasionally bought lottery tickets in droves back to the store. He said there was an increase in the number of workers and others pooling funds into groups to buy lottery tickets.