The recent Powerball lottery prize was for $1 billion but there are fewer than 300,000,000 possible tickets. But like somebody else mentioned, there's always th

The recent Powerball lottery prize was for $1 billion but there are fewer than 300,000,000 possible tickets. But like somebody else mentioned, there's always the possibility of multiple winners. For the recent billion dollar prize, a single person won. The prizes get huge because when there's no winner, the prize rolls over to the next drawing.