The next Powerball drawing is tonight, with an estimated jackpot of $1.9 billion - CBS News

Powerball jackpot hits grounds $1.9 cardinal

Powerball jackpot hits grounds $1.9 billion 00:21

The Powerball jackpot rose to $1.9 cardinal implicit the weekend, mounting different grounds aft nary subordinate won the expansive prize in the past drawing connected Saturday. The adjacent Powerball drafting is acceptable to instrumentality spot connected Monday night, arsenic it does weekly, opening conscionable earlier 11 p.m. Eastern time. 

Powerball drawings are broadcast unrecorded each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nighttime from the lottery gully workplace successful Tallahassee, Florida.

Anticipation implicit the lottery's estimated prize money has grown steadily implicit the past 3 months, arsenic dozens of Powerball rounds passed without anyone taking location the jackpot successful full. The last expansive prize went to a winning summons sold successful Pennsylvania successful aboriginal August, and the prize money has been expanding since then. 

How to play Powerball

Interested players tin acquisition Powerball tickets, sold astatine $2 per play, successful 45 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to lottery officials. But, portion the likelihood of winning immoderate prize during a Powerball drafting are said to beryllium astir 1 successful 25, a player's chances of securing the jackpot are importantly lower, astatine astir 1 successful 292 million, officials say.

When a Powerball summons is purchased, the subordinate is asked to take 5 numbers betwixt 1 and 69, and 1 fig betwixt 1 and 26, for a full of six figures printed connected a play slip. Those who would alternatively not prime numbers themselves tin opt for the lottery terminal to take their numbers randomly. 

Smaller prizes are fixed retired to players who clasp tickets with numbers that partially lucifer the series announced during a drawing. In bid to triumph the jackpot, a summons indispensable lucifer each six numbers called, including the last Powerball number. 

On Saturday, the winning numbers were 28, 45, 53, 56 and 69, with a Powerball of 20. It marked the 40th Powerball drafting since the past jackpot triumph successful August. If nary 1 wins during Monday night's drawing, this Powerball tally volition go the longest successful the game's past without a expansive prize winner. 

If 1 oregon much Powerball tickets triumph connected Monday, the estimated jackpot's currency worth stands astatine $929.1 million, according to the lottery. As usual, winners tin take to cod their prize arsenic either a lump sum payment, which tin beryllium collected successful afloat aft applicable taxes are taken out, oregon arsenic an annuity, which is paid successful 30 graduated payments implicit 29 years.

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