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The ninth-largest lottery jackpot will be on the line when numbers are drawn for a $785 million Powerball prize DES MOINES, Iowa -- The ninth-largest lottery jackpot will be on the line Monday night when numbers are drawn for a $785 million Powerball prize. The payout has grown so large because it has been building for more than two months, since a player in California matched all six numbers on July 19 and won $1.08 billion. That's 28 consecutive drawings without a big winner. That winless streak is due to the miserable odds of winning the Powerball jackpot , at 1 in 292.2 million. It's those long, long odds that result in such large top prize s, as they cause the jackpot to roll over week after week. The jackpot is the ninth- large st in the world, behind top prize s in the Powerball and Mega Millions Game s that all topped $1 billion. The biggest jackpot was a $2.04 billion Powerball prize won in November 2022 in California. Although the game highlights the $785 mill...

In 2009, a web forum began digging for info on a missing lottery winner. A new show features the case and others solved with the help of amateur sleuths online. Florida resident Abraham Shakespeare went from rags to riches after winning $30 million in the lottery in 2006. The newfound fortune brought the 40-year-old from Lakeland out of poverty and allowed him to give back to his community, but he started to feel burdened by the number of people who came to him expecting a piece of the pie, according to Shakespeare's friend Greg Smith and others who knew Shakespeare. Greg Smith, a friend of Abraham Shakespeare who worked as an informant with police, is shown during an interview in the first episode of "Web of Death" airing on Hulu. Courtesy ABC News Studios "When Abraham first won that money, it wasn't only Abraham Shakespeare. It was the community won the lottery," Smith said. So when Shakespeare went missing three years later, it didn't take long for ...