The 12th-largest lottery jackpot in American history, $1.1 billion, will be at stake Monday evening after 41 consecutive drawings of the multi-state Powerball lottery without a ticket sold with all six numbers.
The jackpot is the sixth-largest in the history of the Powerball game, which began in 1992. There have been six larger jackpots for the Mega Millions game, which began in 1996 as The Big Game and was given the new name Mega Millions in 2002.
A ticket with all six numbers hasn’t been sold since Sept. 6, when one ticket each with all six numbers was sold in Missouri and Texas when the jackpot had reached $1.787 billion, the second-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
Draw entry closes at 7 p.m., according to the California Lottery. The drawing is set for 7:59 p.m.
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in 292.2 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.9.
The Powerball game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.