Powerball players are testing their luck, hoping a few bucks will give them tickets to a new life.

Saturday night's Powerball jackpot is $478 million.

It is the 8th-largest lottery jackpot on record in U.S. history, and the fifth-largest in Powerball's history.

No one has purchased a winning ticket since early May.

Lottery officials said the odds of hitting all six are about one in 292 million.

However, those odds are not stopping New Yorkers from taking a chance.

"I don't even want all of it, I just need some," one man said.

"If I do hit it, I'm going to scream, and then I'm going to faint, and then I'm going to wake up and think about it all over again," one woman said.

The winning numbers are scheduled to be announced Saturday at 10:59 p.m.

This jackpot is less than a third of the record $1.6 billion Powerball won in January.

Anyone who matches all five balls and the red Powerball on Saturday night could win a $478 million annuity paid over 29 years or opt for a $330.6 million cash prize.