Due to the fact that no ticket matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing, the jackpot has rolled over and is now a whopping $367 million, payable in a single lump sum.
According to a company statement, the only jackpots in Powerball history that were bigger than this one were the $2.04 billion jackpot in November 2022, the $1.586 billion jackpot in January 2016, and the $1.08 billion jackpot in July.
Powerball said that more than 1.5
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Thirty tickets won $50,000 rewards, and nine tickets won $100,000 awards on Saturday night, it said.
On July 19, someone in California claimed the previous Powerball jackpot of $1.08 billion.
Drew Svitko, head of the Powerball Product Group and executive director of the Pennsylvania Lottery, said in a press release that the current jackpot was just the third time in Powerball’s 31-year history that a jackpot has crossed the billion-dollar level.
A grandmother from Maryland who joked that she’d win the lottery ends up doing just that.
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There hasn’t been a jackpot winner in 28 draws.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday is a drawing day.
You may play Powerball in 45 different states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The chances of winning a prize on Powerball are one in twenty-nine.9, while the odds of winning the jackpot are one in two hundred and ninety-two million.
Landon Mion of FOX Business also provided insight for this article.
