Powerball Jackpot Is $700 Million. What Would You Do With It?

UNIVERSITY PLACE, WA - At some point, we've probably all had the fantasy: if I won the lottery, I would ... . And that fantasy probably ranges widely from paying off the debt of everyone in your family to building a party mansion on a bluff overlooking Lake Coeur d'Alene. Today, maybe take a few minutes to indulge your lottery fantasy, because the Powerball jackpot hit $700 million ($443 million ... after taxes) on Wednesday morning.

This is the second-largest Powerball jackpot in the multi-state game's history. Powerball drawings are held every Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. Eastern time. The record in the game was a $1.6 billion drawing in January 2016, which was won by a couple from Tennessee. And five months ago, on Feb. 22, a lucky player in Indiana won the $435 million Powerball jackpot, the 10th largest in the game's history.

But enough with the numbers. If you win tonight, what's the first thing you're going to do? Send your craziest lottery dreams to neal.mcnamara@patch.com and we'll publish them on Patch.com (whether you win or not).

And you can locate where to buy a Powerball ticket using the Washington's Lottery website.

Patch.com reporter Deb Belt contributed reporting to this story

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