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The world's largest lottery prize is going to get bigger.
Saturday's jackpot had climbed to $1.6 cardinal – the largest lottery prize ever – with a currency enactment of $782.4 million. But nary of the tickets sold matched each six of the winning numbers drawn. The winning numbers were 28 45 53 56 69 and the Powerball was 20. The Power Play was 3.
The record-breaking jackpot is present expected to summation to $1.9 billion, holding a currency worth of $929.1 million, Powerball announced. The adjacent drafting is Monday astatine 10:59 p.m. ET. You tin ticker the drawings livestreamed connected Powerball.com.
Powerball Jackpot: Here's what to bash if you win
Even though determination was nary expansive prize winner, 16 other tickets won million-dollar prizes by matching each 5 achromatic balls. One ticket sold successful Kentucky had the Power Play to triumph $2 million. In total, much than 10.9 million tickets won currency prizes totaling $102.2 cardinal successful Saturday’s drawing.
There person present been 40 Powerball drawings since the jackpot was past won connected August 3 successful Pennsylvania, according to Powerball. That ties the lottery game's grounds for the astir consecutive drawings without a expansive prize winner. The erstwhile longest tally of drawings without a jackpot victor ended aft 41 drawings on Oct. 4, 2021, with a victor of a $699.8 cardinal jackpot successful California.
Powerball tickets are $2 a play. Tickets are sold successful 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Winners tin person their prize done an yearly outgo program implicit 29 years, but astir radical opt for the expansive jackpot prize successful cash.
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