We don’t know how many times this Powerball jackpot has rolled over, but we can tell you that it is now the 9th biggest jackpot in US lottery history. Needless to say, we’ve bought tickets.

It’s quite hard to comprehend $400 million (R6.2 billion). Just to give you an idea, it’s bigger than the GDP of some smaller nations.

• Sao Tome and Principe ($338 million)
• Micronesia ($308 million)
• Palau ($249 million)
• Marshall Islands ($191 million)
• Kiribati ($181 million)
• Tuvalu ($38 million)

According to CNN:

More than 2 million players took home smaller prizes on Saturday. Three contestants took home $1 million apiece. Someone in Pennsylvania also won $2 million.

But no one claimed the grand prize, which keeps growing.
The next drawing is on Wednesday. Powerball estimates the chances of someone picking the jackpot-winning numbers are about 1 in 300 million.
A $400 million win would be one of the biggest Powerball jackpots of all time.

An 84-year-old Floridian won the biggest grand prize in the game’s history in May 2013. It was a $590.5 million jackpot.

Then more from TIME here.

People get quite nerdy when they talk about what they would do if they won the lottery. Remember when you were a kid it would be toys, cars, jets, boats and sweets. Nowadays people give it the big, “Ja, I’d invest 60% with Consequence, then I’d give 10% to charity and I’d buy my mother a blah blah blah..”

Slow-clap..

Well done.

Twat.

You won’t have to play the yawn-card this time around, because EVERYONE will let you blow a billion before “investing the rest”. That’s to ensure your lineage will never have to work again. It also means libraries will have your name on them.

And you know what you can do with that R1 billion you blow?

Anything, my friend.

Anything.

Get tickets here and kick off 2016 with the biggest bang ever.

And to those who “don’t buy lottery tickets”, hahaha – the jokes on you, my friend. Enjoy a dream-free 2016..