Powerball’s jackpot can be at the least an estimated $1.3 billion for the subsequent drawing on Wednesday night time after no tickets bought for Monday’s drawing got here up winners. The money worth of Wednesday’s pot of gold can be roughly $589 million.
The successful numbers for Powerball‘s estimated $1.2 billion Monday night time jackpot — the sport’s fifth-largest ever — have been 8, 23, 25, 40, 53 with a Powerball of 5.
The jackpot rose to an estimated $1.2 billion after nobody gained Saturday night time’s $1 billion windfall. On Saturday, 9 tickets matched all 5 white balls to win $1 million. 4 of these tickets have been bought in California, and one every was bought in Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, based on Powerball.
Lottery officers additionally stated three tickets that matched all 5 white balls on Saturday have been bought with the sport’s “energy play” choice, which prices an additional $1 per ticket and doubles the worth of any prizes. These tickets have been price $2 million every and have been bought to Powerball gamers in Colorado, Indiana and New Hampshire.
Based mostly on the jackpot estimate, a single jackpot winner on Monday would have had the selection of taking a lump sum cost of $498.4 million earlier than taxes, or going with the annuity choice, which might consist of 1 fast cost adopted by 29 annual funds that improve by 5% every year, every cost additionally earlier than taxes.
Saturday’s drawing marked the sixth time within the recreation’s 33-year historical past that the highest prize has climbed to the billion-dollar mark.
Nobody has gained Powerball’s jackpot since Might 31, when a single ticket in California gained a $204.5 million jackpot with a money worth of $91.6 million.
4 of the 5 earlier billion-plus-jackpot-winning tickets have been bought in California, together with a single ticket bought in Altadena in 2022 that claimed a $2.04 billion jackpot, the largest in each Powerball and lottery historical past.
The subsequent drawing, which takes place from the Florida Lottery stay draw studio in Tallahassee, is on Wednesday at 10:59 p.m. ET. Tickets are $2 and are bought in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Kierra Frazier
contributed to this report.
