A big winning Powerball lottery ticket is sold out in Michigan

A Powerball lottery ticket sold outside Flint, Mich., won $842.2 million on Monday, the 10th-largest jackpot in United States history.

Huge jackpots have become increasingly common in the multistate Mega Millions and Powerball lottery drawings, because of changes to the games over the years and higher ticket prices.

Between the two lotteries, nine jackpots in the U.S. have surpassed $1 billion since 2016 — including four in 2023 alone. 

In January 2023, a single ticket-holder in Maine won the fourth-largest lottery prize in U.S. history, a Mega Millions jackpot worth $1.35 billion.

Over the summer, two separate tickets won billion-dollar jackpots: In California, on July 19, when a Powerball ticket won $1.08 billion, and then in Florida, on Aug. 9, when a single ticket won a Mega Millions jackpot of $1.58 billion.