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The already monolithic Powerball jackpot keeps connected increasing and present has deed an estimated $800 cardinal — its second-biggest ever and 5th largest successful U.S. lottery history.
No winning tickets were sold for Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot of astir $700 million, the game's biggest this year. So for Saturday night's drawing, the expansive prize volition beryllium astatine slightest astir $800 million, Powerball officials say. The fig could turn arsenic much and much tickets are gobbled up.
Wednesday was the 36th consecutive clip nary 1 won the Powerball cookware of gold.
Powerball's biggest jackpot was besides the largest ever won successful immoderate lottery anyplace successful the world, a colossal $1.586 cardinal successful January 2016. It was shared by ticketholders successful California, Florida and Tennessee.
Powerball jackpot winners person the enactment of getting their prize successful an contiguous lump sum, which would magnitude to an estimated $383.7 cardinal successful currency worth if idiosyncratic wins Saturday, oregon arsenic an annuity. That enactment pays retired the afloat jackpot magnitude implicit astir 30 years. All of that would beryllium earlier taxes.
Wednesday night's winning numbers were 19, 36, 37, 46, 56, and a Powerball of 24.
Powerball offers 9 ways to win. Lottery officials accidental six tickets were cardinal dollar winners Wednesday: 2 successful California and 1 each successful Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan and New York. They matched each 5 achromatic balls but fell abbreviated of taking it each due to the fact that they didn't conjecture the close Powerball.
Powerball jackpots person been won 5 times truthful acold this year.
The likelihood of winning immoderate prize are 1 successful 24.9. But the likelihood of winning the jackpot are — 1 successful 292.2 million.
Powerball tickets outgo $2 each and are sold successful 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Powerball drawings are broadcast unrecorded each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday astatine 10:59 p.m. ET and unrecorded streamed at Powerball.com.
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