The Powerball jackpot has swelled to an estimated $1 billion forward of Saturday night time’s drawing, marking one of many largest prizes in historical past.
No tickets matched all six numbers drawn on Wednesday: white balls 10, 16, 29, 33, 69 and the crimson Powerball 22.
The pot now ranks because the seventh-largest Powerball jackpot and the second to achieve the billion-dollar mark this yr, after a $1.787-billion prize — the second largest in lottery historical past — was cut up by winners in Missouri and Texas on Sept. 6.
Saturday’s drawing would be the forty second within the present jackpot run, tying the April 2024 file for essentially the most consecutive drawings with no six-number winner. Three tickets bought in Maryland, Michigan and New Jersey matched 5 white balls Wednesday to win $1 million, however fell in need of the total jackpot.
If somebody wins on Saturday, they’ll select between an annuitized prize of $1 billion or a lump sum cost of $461.3 million, earlier than taxes, in accordance with a Powerball information launch. If the winner picks the annuity possibility, they obtain one cost instantly after which 29 annual funds, growing by 5% annually.
The percentages of successful the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, and the general odds of successful any prize are 1 in 24.9.
Two Southern Californians have received the Powerball jackpot thus far this yr. One ticket price $515 million was bought in Anaheim in March, and one other price $205 million was bought two months later in Arleta.
California has been house to the primary and third greatest Powerball payouts on file. In November 2022, Altadena resident Edwin Castro claimed a $2.04-billion prize. Lower than a yr later, in October 2023, Theodorus Struyck and a Frazier Park lottery pool secured a $1.765-billion jackpot.
Different notable jackpot wins embrace:
- A $1.586 billion jackpot in January 2016, received by three folks, in California, Florida and Tennessee
- A $1.326 billion jackpot in April 2024
- A $1.08 billion jackpot in July 2023 in California
- An $842.4 million jackpot in January 2024 in Michigan
- A $768.4 million jackpot in March 2019 in Wisconsin
- A $758.7 million jackpot in August 2017 in Massachusetts
- A $754.6 million jackpot in Feb, 2023 in Washington
- A $731.1 million jackpot in January 2021 in Maryland
Tickets are bought in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, with drawings broadcast each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
