Powerball (Australia)

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Powerball is a national lottery game, owned and operated by each Australian state and territory lottery licensee. This includes those licensees under The Lottery Corporation's The Lott lottery brand, such as New South Wales Lotteries in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Tattersalls in Victoria, Tasmania and the Northern Territory, Golden Casket in Queensland and South Australian Lotteries in South Australia. The government-owned Lotterywest owns and operates the lottery game in Western Australia. Powerball in Australia started in 1996 as a Tattersall's two-barrel, lotto-type gambling game, four years after the game of the same name had started in the USA. At the time, five balls were drawn from the first barrel, which contained 45 balls, then the single Powerball number was drawn from a barrel also containing 45 balls, with the odds of winning the top prize 1 in 54,979,155. The highest Australian Powerball jackpot was A$200 million on 1 February 2024 and was shared by...

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