Powerball jackpot grows to $400 million ahead of Saturdays drawing

A winning ticket in that very first drawing was offered in Indiana for the $5.9 million jackpot (about $12 million today). The most recent jackpot was struck in the Feb. 14 illustration, with a ticket sold in Connecticut winning $185.3 million.The jackpot was struck one other time so far this year. Two tickets sold in California and Wisconsin in the Jan. 5 illustration divided the $632.6 million prize– the seventh-largest prize in Powerballs history.The biggest Powerball jackpot was a world record-setting $1.586 billion in January 2016.