File - in this Sept. 27, 2012 file photo, a Powerball promotional check sits on the counter in the Casey's General Store, in Bondurant, Iowa. The jackpot for Powerball?s Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012, drawing has climbed to $325 million, the fourth-largest in the game?s history. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
File - in this Sept. 27, 2012 file photo, a Powerball promotional check sits on the counter in the Casey's General Store, in Bondurant, Iowa. The jackpot for Powerball?s Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012, drawing has climbed to $325 million, the fourth-largest in the game?s history. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? The jackpot for Powerball's Saturday drawing has climbed to $325 million, the fourth-largest in the game's history.
A single winner's cash payout would be nearly $213 million before taxes.
Powerball organizers say this is the first run-up to a large jackpot that's fallen over a major holiday. They're unsure whether Thanksgiving and Black Friday will help or hinder sales.
Powerball jackpots have increased more rapidly since the game's organizers doubled the ticket price to $2 in January. An Iowa couple won $202 million in a Sept. 26 drawing, and an anonymous winner in Delaware got $50 million prize the next week.
Roxie Breece, assistant manager at a Cenex convenience store in Ogallala, Neb., says far more Powerball tickets than usual have been sold over the past week.
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