There was no winner in the last Powerball lottery draw, the operator of the multistate game said on Thursday. With no winner, the jackpot now climbing to a staggering amount of approximately $675 million - one of the largest in North American history.
The last Powerball jackpot winner was in November, when a ticket holder from Tennessee claimed $144.1 million. However, that was far smaller than last year's biggest jackpots of $564.1 million in February and $310.5 million in September.
The largest-ever U.S. lottery jackpot payout was in March 2012, when $656 million was won in a Mega Millions draw.