Four tickets share $295m Powerball jackpot

Four tickets from different states across the US have won the $295m Powerball jackpot.

The tickets were sold in New Hampshire, Delaware, Minnesota and Kentucky. The £204m jackpot is the second highest in Powerball history.

A group of factory workers in Ohio split a $295.7m prize in 1998.

The biggest lottery prize in US history is the $363m (£251m) Big Game jackpot, won last year by two players in Illinois and Michigan.

The names of the jackpot winners will not be known until they come forward with their tickets. A total of 88 tickets which matched the first five numbers, but missed the Powerball, will receive $100,000 (£69,000) each.

Ticket sales in Iowa on Saturday are expected to top the sales figure on Wednesday, when the jackpot hit $200m (£139m) and the state's 1,600 lottery machines cranked out tickets at an average of one a minute.

Lottery hopefuls from non-Powerball states streamed into Connecticut from north, west and south, arriving by car, commuter trains from New York City and ferry boats from New York's Long Island.

However, lines were not as bad as expected in Greenwich, Connecticut, which suspended ticket sales for a day on Friday because of the mob scenes it has experienced during previous Powerball frenzies.

The odds of winning are one in 80 million, but that didn't stop customers from driving 250 miles from Austin, Texas, to pick up tickets in Louisiana.