Winning numbers for $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot announced - CBS News

Powerball jackpot hits $1.6 cardinal

Powerball jackpot hits $1.6 billion, largest prize ever 01:58

The Powerball jackpot grew to a $1.6 cardinal up of Saturday night's drawing, officials announced. The winning numbers Saturday were 28, 45, 53, 56, 69 and a Powerball of 20. It was inactive unclear if immoderate winning tickets were sold.   

If the fig holds and idiosyncratic indeed wins the expansive prize, it would acceptable a caller grounds for the largest lottery prize ever.

A victor has the enactment to person the prize arsenic an annuity dispersed implicit 29 years oregon arsenic a lump-sum outgo of $782.4 million, officials said.

The jackpot has eluded players since Aug. 3, the past clip anyone matched each 5 winning numbers and the Powerball. The winning numbers successful Wednesday night's drafting were 2, 11, 22, 35, 60 with a Powerball of 23.

The odds of winning it each are 1 successful 292.2 million.

Highest Powerball jackpot ever

Since 2016, the highest Powerball jackpot has been a world-record $1.586 billion, which was divided among winners successful California, Florida and Tennessee.

Mega Millions drafting days

Mega Millions is simply a antithetic multistate lottery game, and its drawings are held connected Tuesdays and Fridays astatine 11 p.m. ET. Earlier this year, 2 radical who won a $1.337 cardinal Mega Millions jackpot chose to instrumentality a lump sum outgo of $780.5 million. For Friday night's drawing, the estimated jackpot was $119 million.

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