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Powerball comes to Florida

   December 29, 2008

Next Sunday, Floridians will be able to play Powerball- the multi-state (29 state and U.S. territories) lottery with a $300 million jackpot.

Starting Sunday, Floridians will be able to buy tickets for Powerball, the popular multistate lottery game that offers mega-jackpots.

Powerball’s minimum jackpot is $20 million. Over the course of its 16-year history, the average winning jackpot has been $38 million, with a record of $365 million in 2006.

The odds of winning a Powerball jackpot are 1 in 195 million.

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