Players of the Powerball lottery may be asking why, after last night's $875 million big prize went unclaimed, the jackpot only rose by $25 million this morning. The answer is that the previous jackpot's value was overestimated. The ultimate jackpot total was revealed to be $829.4 million during the live drawing, which was $45.6 million less than what was anticipated. Similarly, the cash value, which had been anticipated to total $452.2 million, actually amounted to $428.6 million. Because ticket sales did not reach the optimistic levels first anticipated earlier in the week, the jackpot totals were lower than predicted.
