This is why we got Powerball. To dream the dream.

The largest Powerball jackpot in the history of Florida is at stake Saturday, estimated at $192 million.

For those who don't know, Powerball is a mega-jackpot lotto game that is played in 30 states, including Florida, which added it in January. It is in addition to the Florida Lottery, which gets a cut of the tickets you buy here.

The game’s starting jackpot is $20 million, and increases if no one matches all five numbers plus the Powerball. Well, the Powerball jackpot has rolled over 12 times since April 11, resulting in the largest lottery jackpot nationally for the 10:59 p.m. drawing Saturday. (Channel 10 airs the winning numbers on tape-delay during its newscast. If I'm them, I promo the heck out of this on Saturday.)

With tickets still being sold, the number is fluid, but when these jackpots get large, the ticket sales soar. It always amuses me that when the prize is at, say, $20 million, people don't play. But when it gets into the hundreds, they sell even more tickets, because that's serious money.

Dislaimer paragraph: To nail Powerball, you'll need five of 59 numbers, then the one red Powerball (out of 39). That's a 1 in 195,249,054 chance.

If no one hits Powerball in the next few weeks, we have a chance at the all-time Powerball record, not just the highest every in Florida. In 2006, $365 million was shared by eight co-workers in 2006 at a meatpacking plant in Lincoln, Neb.

More information and past winning numbers are at FloridaLottery.com, Powerball.com or MUSL.com.

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