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The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $685 million after no ticket matched all six numbers to nab the grand prize throughout Monday evening’s Christmas drawing.
The highest prize up for grabs in the course of the subsequent drawing on Wednesday has a lump-sum choice of an estimated $344.7 million, in line with Powerball’s web site.
Nobody has received the Powerball jackpot on Christmas Day since 2013, when a ticket in Missouri received a $71.5 million jackpot, in line with a Powerball news release.
The numbers drawn Monday had been 5, 12, 20, 24, 29 and Powerball 4.
Whereas nobody received the jackpot Monday, a number of tickets matched the primary 5 numbers to win massive prizes.
Tickets in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania received $1 million every. An analogous ticket in California received about $2.08 million, that state’s lottery system said. Non-jackpot prizes in California depend upon variety of winners and ticket gross sales, and can differ from mounted prizes proven on Powerball’s web site.
Two tickets bought in Colorado and Georgia, received $2 million prizes as a result of their participant included the Energy Play function, in line with Powerball’s web site.
The Powerball jackpot was final received on October 11, when a ticket in California won a $1.765 billion grand prize. Since then, 32 consecutive drawings have been held and not using a jackpot winner.
The general odds of successful a prize are 1 in 24.9, however the odds of scoring the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, Powerball says.