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A look at the 10 highest US lottery jackpots

Ryan McGuinness, left, and Shane Krugman display 3,000 Powerball lottery tickets that they had purchased from the Metro Market, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016, in Tampa. The two Tampa men have organized a lottery pool that has about 270 participants who have chipped in at least $500 and bought more than 67,000 tickets. The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday night's drawing is at least $1.5 billion, the largest lottery jackpot in the world. (Skip O'Rourke/The Tampa Bay Times via AP) TAMPA OUT; CITRUS COUNTY OUT; PORT CHARLOTTE OUT; BROOKSVILLE HERNANDO TODAY OUT FLPET118
Ryan McGuinness, left, and Shane Krugman display 3,000 Powerball lottery tickets that they had purchased from the Metro Market, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016, in Tampa. The two Tampa men have organized a lottery pool that has about 270 participants who have chipped in at least $500 and bought more than 67,000 tickets. The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday night's drawing is at least $1.5 billion, the largest lottery jackpot in the world. (Skip O'Rourke/The Tampa Bay Times via AP) TAMPA OUT; CITRUS COUNTY OUT; PORT CHARLOTTE OUT; BROOKSVILLE HERNANDO TODAY OUT FLPET118 Ryan McGuinness, left, and Shane Krugman display 3,000 Powerball lottery tickets that they had purchased from the Metro Market, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016, in Tampa. The two Tampa men have organized a lottery pool that has about 270 participants who have chipped in at least $500 and bought more than 67,000 tickets. The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday night's drawing is at least $1.5 billion, the largest lottery jackpot in the world. (Skip O'Rourke/The Tampa Bay Times via AP) TAMPA OUT; CITRUS COUNTY OUT; PORT CHARLOTTE OUT; BROOKSVILLE HERNANDO TODAY OUT FLPET118

By Associated Press 1 min read

Three winning tickets were sold in a record $1.6 billion Powerball drawing, the largest lottery jackpot in the world.

Not that there aren’t large jackpots elsewhere. Spain’s massively popular Christmas lottery, known as “El Gordo,” is ranked as the world’s richest, though it doles out a single jackpot among millions of prizes, instead of one large jackpot like the Powerball. El Gordo last month showered 2.2 billion euros ($2.4 billion) across the country.

As for the U.S., here’s a look at the 10 previous highest jackpots and the winners’ home states:

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1. $656.0 million, Mega Millions, March 30, 2012 (three tickets, from Kansas, Illinois and Maryland)

2. $636 million, Mega Millions, Dec. 17, 2013, (two tickets, from California and Georgia)

3. $590.5 million, Powerball, May 18, 2013 (one ticket, from Florida)

4. $587.5 million, Powerball, Nov. 28, 2012 (two tickets, from Arizona and Missouri)

5. $564.1 million, Powerball, Feb. 11, 2015 (three tickets, from North Carolina, Puerto Rico and Texas)

6. $448.4 million, Powerball, Aug. 7, 2013, (three tickets, one from Minnesota and two from New Jersey)

7. $425.3 million, Powerball, Feb. 19, 2014 (one ticket, from California)

8. $414 million, Mega Millions, March 18, 2014, (two tickets, from Florida and Maryland)

9. $399.4 million, Powerball, Sept. 18, 2013, (one ticket, from South Carolina)

10. $390.0 million, Mega Millions, March 6, 2007 (two tickets, from Georgia and New Jersey)

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Sources: AP archives and www.powerball.com .