Will a South African Win Wednesday's R5 Billion US Powerball Lottery?

A few years ago, the only way you could win a lottery jackpot worth hundreds of millions was to fly to the United States to physically buy a lotto ticket there. How times have changed! In the last few years, South Africans have increasingly been buying their lottery tickets online.

By the end of 2015 South Africans had bought tens of thousands of US Powerball tickets through theLotter. Online sales really skyrocketed, however, in January of the current year, when the US Powerball set a new world jackpot record of $1.6 billion (R11 billion). That multi-billion dollar draw created such a frenzy all over the world that countless South Africans have since been going online every week to buy overseas lotto tickets.

The most popular foreign lottery for South Africans remains the US Powerball, which currently offers $348 million (R5 billion) - a far cry from its all-time high, but dozens of times bigger than anything we're used to in South Africa . What's more, it is extremely likely that the multi-state lotto giant will adjust the tally in the lead-up to Wednesday night's draw due to the massive increase in ticket sales. Will a South African follow in the footsteps of countless foreign Powerball prize winners?

theLotter.com is the world's premier lottery ticket messenger service - it enables people to order official lottery tickets from around the world and doesn't charge any commission on wins. The service has helped people win more than R700 million since 2002: late 2015 one of its Iraqi clients won the $6.4 million jackpot in Oregon . In 2016 a Russian player won the Austria Lotto jackpot, and a pensioner from El Salvador as well as a man from Canada each won the $1m second prize in the US Powerball! More winner stories can be found here.

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