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• And if he isn't successful this time, it's likely he'll have another shot at a record-breaking pot of cash.
• Since Powerball tickets doubled in price to $2 in January, the number of tickets sold has decreased, but the sales revenue has made up for it, increasing by about 35 percent, said Norm Lingle, chairman of the Powerball board of directors.
• And as the price went up, so did the jackpots, enticing thousands across the country to play.
• "Christmas is coming and $325 million would come in handy," said Tim Abel, 63, who was buying a Powerball ticket at New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal. The Broadway stagehand said he usually plays whenever the jackpot goes over $100 million.
• Recent Powerball winners include an Iowa couple that won a whopping $202 million on Sept. 26. A week later, a Delaware resident picked all six numbers for a $50 million payday.
• Cashiers at a DeliMart convenience store in Iowa City said they expect a last-minute rush Saturday. The store sells $200 to $300 worth of Powerball tickets on an average day, but assistant manager Scott Falkenhan said he anticipates that will more than double.
• Falkenhan, 32, was planning to buy his own ticket after his shift ended.
• "I'd buy a new truck and a new boat," he said. "Then I'd go on my own fishing tour."
• Roxie Breece, an assistant manager at a Cenex convenience store in Ogallala, Neb., said clerks have sold far more Powerball tickets than usual over the past week.
• "Tomorrow's going to be a nightmare for us," she said. "With everybody out shopping and the drawing on Saturday, we'll be really busy."
• Lingle, who is also the executive director of the South Dakota Lottery, says this weekend will be "telling."
• "To my knowledge we've never had a large jackpot run like this fall over a major holiday," he said.
• Frank Scorvino of Toms River, N.J., is in charge of buying lottery tickets -- including Powerball -- for a group of about a dozen fellow construction workers. If they win, he said, most of them would purchase new houses and cars, and some might go on a cruise.
• South Bend, Ind., resident Dameon Smith says he'd retire from his job at the Hummer plant in Mishawaka, Ind. He said he'd share with family, friends and people he doesn't know.

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