With the odds stacked against players hitting the Powerball jackpot, the only guaranteed eventual winner is Uncle Sam. The top prize has now jumped to $414 million, following no jackpot winner in Wednesday night's drawing. The amount has been growing for more than two months of twice-weekly drawings with no one nabbing the jackpot. Your chance of matching all winning numbers is about 1 in 292 million. The IRS already has had a bonanza week: The person holding the Oct. 23 winning ticket for the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot anonymously claimed the prize on Monday.

A customer purchases Powerball lottery tickets for a $700 million jackpot at a newsstand in New York City, August 23, 2017. Brendan McDermid | Reuters

Based on the federal tax withholding of 24 percent, the IRS gets more than $210 million right off the bat of the $877.8 million cash option that the winner chose (instead of an annuity). The state of South Carolina, where the ticket was sold, gets its own $61 million in taxes. Separately, the winner for last Friday's $273 million Mega Millions jackpot has come forward. Michael J. Weirsky, 54, of Alpha, New Jersey, is expected to officially claim his winnings Thursday afternoon. And, of course, someone eventually will win the Powerball jackpot again, as well. Whether the person takes their loot as an annuity spread out over three decades or chooses the reduced lump-sum amount, the IRS will be waiting in the wings for its share.