Video: $600 million jackpot triggers lottery fever in the US Lottery players in the US are biting their nails ahead of Saturday night's Powerball draw, with an estimated jackpot of $600 million. The latest state to join the Powerball is California, where $83 million worth of Powerball tickets have been sold since April, when it joined 42 other states that offer the game. Since then, the most populous state has accounted for 11 percent of the game's sales, fueling such fast-growing mega-jackpots like the latest one that has the potential to be a record-breaker. Kavanagh Liquors in the town of San Lorenzo, in the east of California, is attracting players with its reputation as a lucky place to play. Five previous lottery millionaires bought their tickets in the shop. Right now I'm looking for a job. I've been out of work for five months now. My big dream of course would be to win the lotto or something so I wouldn't have to go back to work," said one player. More than half of the all-time jackpot records have been reached in the last three years. The top two all-time jackpots - $656 million from a Mega Millions jackpot and $587.5 million from a Powerball jackpot - were achieved in 2012. Some states, like California, now sell tickets for both games.