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Monday evening’s Powerball jackpot has soared to an estimated $975 million after there was no grand prize winner in Saturday’s drawing.
Saturday’s profitable numbers had been: 12, 13, 33, 50, 52 with a Powerball of 23.
The estimated $975 million Powerball jackpot in play Monday jumped from $935 million after no tickets matched all six numbers in Saturday evening’s drawing.
A jackpot winner in Monday’s drawing can select to obtain the cash in annuitized funds or take a lump sum estimated at $471.7 million.
Whereas the jackpot wasn’t received within the drawing on Saturday, 4 tickets received $1 million every by matching the primary 5 numbers. These tickets had been bought in Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania, in line with the Powerball website.
Powerball’s grand prize was final received in January, when a ticket in Michigan scored a $842.4 million jackpot. Since then, 38 consecutive drawings have taken place with out a jackpot winner, in line with Powerball.
The biggest Powerball jackpot – and the most important US lottery prize – ever received was $2.04 billion by a ticket bought in California in November 2022, in line with the lottery.
Rating second by means of fourth are $1.765 billion (one ticket in California; 2023); $1.586 billion (three tickets, 2016); and $1.08 billion (one ticket in California, 2023).
Profitable the Powerball jackpot means a ticket matched all 5 white balls plus the crimson Powerball. The chances of profitable any prize in a Powerball drawing are 1 in 24.9, and the percentages of profitable the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, in line with the lottery.
Powerball tickets value $2 per play and are bought in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Drawings are held Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10:59 p.m. ET in Tallahassee, Florida.