Powerball jackpot grows to record $1.9 billion as no tickets matched all winning numbers Saturday - CNN

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The Powerball jackpot has present grown to an estimated $1.9 cardinal aft nary winning tickets were sold successful Saturday night’s drawing, according to the California Lottery Association.

The winning numbers were 28-45-53-56-69 and the Powerball was 20. The adjacent Powerball drafting is acceptable for Monday.

Saturday’s estimated $1.6 cardinal gully had been the “world’s largest lotto prize ever offered,” Powerball said.

But unluckily for summons buyers, the likelihood of winning the monolithic prize stay agelong – conscionable 1 successful 292.2 million.

Having nary winners Saturday would “tie the crippled grounds for the fig of consecutive drawings without a expansive prize winner,” Powerball said. Saturday’s drafting astatine the Florida Lottery gully workplace successful Tallahassee was Powerball’s 40th since the jackpot was past won August 3 by a summons successful Pennsylvania.

Saturday’s jackpot, which had a lump-sum enactment of an estimated $782.4 cardinal “breaks the satellite grounds for the Largest National Lottery Jackpot successful the Guinness World Records,” California Lottery tweeted up of the numbers dropping.

The Guinness World Records’ “Greatest jackpot successful a nationalist lottery” was acceptable by Powerball successful January 2016, erstwhile 3 tickets won a $1.586 cardinal jackpot.

Powerball tickets are $2 per play and are sold successful 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.