WASHINGTON — There's $439 million on the road for Wednesday night time's Powerball drawing after the sport's winless streak continued Monday.
Wednesday's profitable numbers had been 6-15-22-42-47 and Powerball 26.
Whereas $439 million is a gigantic amount of cash, it nonetheless falls greater than $200 million wanting cracking the highest 10 listing of largest lottery jackpots.
The final Powerball jackpot win was in mid-November. In early November, a single ticket purchased in California received a record-breaking $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot.
The attention-popping grand prize jackpots are just for winners who select the sport's annuity choice, which is paid out over 29 years. Most gamers take the smaller one-time fee — in Wednesday's drawing's case, $237.3 million (earlier than taxes, after all).
The present jackpot additionally has a tricky act to observe after a $1.35 billion Mega Tens of millions ticket was offered in Maine final week. The winner, who hasn't been recognized, can stay nameless. Greater than a dozen different gamers matched 5 numbers and received the sport's second-tier prize of $1 million.
Odds of profitable the Powerball jackpot are slim — one in 292.2 million.
Over the previous few years, large lottery jackpots have develop into extra frequent as lottery officers have modified the principles and ticket costs to spice up prime prizes.
In 2021, the lottery sport noticed its greatest change as Powerball officers added a Monday drawing to its weekly lineup of Wednesday and Saturday night drawings. On the time of the announcement, Powerball proclaimed the addition of the Monday drawing would result in "bigger, faster-growing jackpots."
Powerball is performed in 45 states, in addition to Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
What are the most important US lottery jackpots ever received?
- $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 8, 2022 (one ticket, from California)
- $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)
- $1.537 billion, Mega Tens of millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)
- $1.35 billion Mega Tens of millions, Jan. 13, 2023 (one ticket, from Maine)
- $1.337 billion, Mega Tens of millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)
- $1.05 billion, Mega Tens of millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)
- $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)
- $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)
- $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)
- $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021 (one ticket, from California)