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The Powerball jackpot has soared to an estimated $1.4 billion, the fifth-biggest successful the lottery's history, aft nary 1 claimed the apical prize.
The numbers were drawn Wednesday nighttime for an estimated $1.4 cardinal Powerball jackpot, which would beryllium the sixth-largest successful U.S. lottery history.
They are: 61-29-69-16-03 with the Powerball fig 22.
Officials person not yet said whether anyone overcame Powerball's abysmal likelihood of 1 successful 292.2 cardinal by matching each six numbers.
The prize is the effect of 40 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner. The past drafting with a jackpot victor had been May 31.
Powerball's unspeakable likelihood are designed to make large jackpots, with prizes increasing arsenic they repeatedly rotation implicit erstwhile nary 1 wins. Lottery officials enactment that the likelihood are acold amended for the game's galore smaller prizes. There are 3 drawings each week.
The estimated $1.4 cardinal jackpot is for a victor who opts to person 30 payments implicit 29 years done an annuity. Winners astir ever take the game's currency option, which for this drafting would beryllium an estimated $634.3 million.
Powerball tickets outgo $2, and the crippled is offered successful 45 states positive Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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