Kentucky Lottery gives out free chance to win largest lottery jackpot in history

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) – You’ve got one other probability to win what’s now the biggest lottery jackpot in historical past on Saturday.

Kentucky Lottery officers say they need everybody to have an opportunity to win that cash. So, they have been handing out vouchers at no cost lottery tickets in Frankfort Friday morning at Kroger.

Folks lined up for a free probability to win $1.6 billion. It’s the best jackpot in world lottery historical past.

Lottery gamers who stood in line Friday morning instructed us the sensation of profitable that jackpot can be unbelievable.

“First, I’m not going to consider it. I’d be like, ‘Oh, I’m going again to sleep.’ Then, I’d get up, go to the fuel station and scan it and be like ‘Oh my God!’ I’m calling my mother, be like, ‘Inform ‘em you’re going to be gone for every week. We’re going to Florida. We occurring trip proper now,” mentioned Zach Howard.

Kentucky Lottery President Mary Harville says, for her, having a Kentuckian win the jackpot can be an superior expertise, and actually it’s a win-win.

“It’s some huge cash. It’s getting actually near being that record-high jackpot and we wish all people to remember and to get in on the sport as a result of, for us, extra Powerball gross sales imply extra money for faculty scholarships and grants for Kentucky faculty college students,” Harville mentioned.

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