Customers queued at Hawthorne stores as the Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.25 billion, following the most recent drawing that produced no jackpot winner and marked the 43rd consecutive rollover.The prize’s lump-sum cash value is estimated at $572.1 million before taxes, and two tickets in the prior drawing matched all five white balls to win $1 million each while dozens of other tickets won $50,000 and $200,000 prizes.This is the second-largest
Powerball prize this year and only the second time the game has produced back-to-back billion-dollar jackpots,
Matt Strawn said, while tickets cost $2 and a $1
Power Play can multiply non-jackpot payouts.