The Powerball jackpot edged up one other decimal level this weekend, hitting $1.6 billion for Monday’s drawing after no Saturday ticket hit all six numbers.
The money worth of Monday’s jackpot, ought to anybody overcome the 1 in 292.2 million odds of hitting all six digits, is $735.3 million, Powerball directors say.
Saturday’s numbers had been 4, 5, 28, 52, 69, the crimson Powerball quantity 20, and a 3x Energy Play multiplier. Sept. 6 was the final time a ticket matched all successful numbers, when consumers in Missouri and Texas shared a $1.787 billion prize.
The 45 drawings since then mark the longest winnerless Powerball jackpot stretch within the recreation’s historical past and a near-record for all lotteries general. Anybody daunted by the Everest-high jackpot odds can take coronary heart with their probability of successful any prize in any respect, which is 1 in 24.9, the bottom quantity being $4, or the worth of two Powerball tickets.
Even with no person matching all of the successful numbers Saturday, one New Jersey winner who splurged on the additional greenback for the sport’s Double Play snagged a $500,000 prize, Powerball famous. Total, 112 tickets received $50,000 prizes and 22 received $150,000.
Whereas none of these seem to have been purchased in New York, state residents cleaned up in final Wednesday’s drawing, when three tickets received 1,000,000 {dollars} every, a Manhattan ticket purchaser snagged $200,000, and 4 tickets received $50,000 third prizes, in keeping with the New York Lottery.
The subsequent drawing in what Powerball officers are calling the sport’s “holiday jackpot streak” is at 10:59 p.m. Monday.
“Powerball is giving players a chance to dream bigger than ever this holiday season,” stated Powerball Product Group chair Matt Strawn in a press release.
The very best Powerball jackpot to this point was $2.04 billion, received in California on Nov. 7, 2022.
