One other Powerball draw ended Saturday evening and not using a winner, elevating the jackpot to an estimated $900 million.
No ticket for Saturday’s draw matched the profitable mixture: white balls 2, 9, 43, 55, 57 and crimson Powerball 18. The jackpot was estimated at $875 million.
Ticket consumers for Monday’s drawing have the prospect to win $900 million paid out in annual increments or a one-time cost of $465.1 million earlier than tax.
The highest prize is the third largest Powerball jackpot and the seventh largest in US lottery historical past, Powerball stated in an announcement early Sunday.
Whereas there was no jackpot winner, Powerball stated three tickets matching all 5 white balls shall be eligible for $1 million prizes on Saturday, together with two in Texas and one in Colorado.
The jackpot retains rising till somebody wins.
The sport’s abysmal odds of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to construct large prizes that entice extra gamers. The biggest Powerball jackpot was $2.04 billion in November.
The final time anybody gained the Powerball jackpot was on April nineteenth for a prime prize of just about $253 million. Since then, nobody has gained the highest prize up to now 37 consecutive attracts.
Powerball is performed in 45 states, in addition to Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
