BLACKWELL: All right. Game day: lottery soaring to $800 million -- the largest jackpot in U.S. history. Of course, the game is not football.</s>PAUL: No. Sports anchor Andy Scholes is here with this particular game.</s>ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS: Yes. Who doesn't love talking lottery, right? It's the game that everybody wants to win the most -- right.</s>BLACKWELL: Always a chance.</s>SCHOLES: So there are some numbers that I want to show you. Since the lottery expanded to 69 -- the range between 1 and 69 -- there are some numbers that have never been drawn. It's only been three months but still -- 8, 23, 24, 34, 35, 39 and 51 -- never been drawn. So either those numbers are unlucky or hey, maybe they're due?</s>PAUL: That's right.</s>SCHOLES: You could pick all these numbers. And I want to show you this other number -- this is astounding. Americans spend more money on lottery tickets than sports tickets, books, video games, movie box office and music combined. All of them put together don't add up to what we spend on lottery tickets. That's amazing numbers -- over $70 billion. And things that are more likely happen to you than win the lottery -- struck by lightning, drown, being struck by lightning while drowning, a few things.</s>SCHOLES: There's also being struck by a meteor which is 1 in some big number that's not on there yet. But I'll tell you what --</s>PAUL: All right.</s>BLACKWELL: All right.</s>PAUL: Thanks, Andy. Good luck.</s>SCHOLES: Got a chance.</s>PAUL: Good luck.</s>SCHOLES: All right.</s>BLACKWELL: See you back here at 10:00.
Jackpot Hits $800 Million as Ticket Sales Soar.