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3 $1M winning tickets were sold successful Arizona, Pennsylvania and Texas, according to the Powerball website.
ByDalia Faheid, CNN, CNNWire
Thursday, March 28, 2024 9:05AM
Nobody won Wednesday's Powerball drafting truthful the jackpot is climbing to $935 cardinal for Saturday.
With nary 1 winning the Powerball jackpot Wednesday, the expansive prize for Saturday's drafting grew person to the billion-dollar mark, according to the lottery.
Wednesday's winning numbers were: 37, 46, 57, 60, 66 and Powerball 8.
The $935 cardinal Powerball jackpot successful play Saturday jumped from $865 cardinal aft nary tickets matched each six numbers successful Wednesday night's drawing. It would beryllium the fifth-largest prize successful the past of the game.
A jackpot victor successful Saturday's drafting could take to person the wealth successful annuitized payments oregon instrumentality a lump sum estimated astatine $449.7 million.
Although nary jackpot was won Wednesday, 3 tickets inactive won $1 cardinal each by matching the archetypal 5 numbers. Those tickets were sold successful Arizona, Pennsylvania and Texas, according to the Powerball website.
This is the archetypal Powerball jackpot to surpass $900 cardinal this year. Powerball's expansive prize was past won successful January, erstwhile a summons successful Michigan scored a $842.4 cardinal jackpot. Since then, 37 consecutive drawings person taken spot without a jackpot winner, according to Powerball.
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The largest Powerball jackpot - and the largest US lottery prize - ever won was $2.04 cardinal by a summons purchased successful California successful November 2022, according to the lottery.
Saturday's estimated $935 cardinal jackpot would fertile 5th connected Powerball's all-time list. Ranking 2nd done 4th are $1.765 cardinal (one summons successful California; 2023); $1.586 cardinal (three tickets; 2016); and $1.08 cardinal (one summons successful California, 2023).
Winning the Powerball jackpot means a summons matched each 5 achromatic balls positive the reddish Powerball. The likelihood of winning immoderate prize successful a Powerball drafting are 1 successful 24.9, and the likelihood of winning the jackpot are 1 successful 292.2 million, according to the lottery.
Powerball tickets outgo $2 per play and are sold successful 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Drawings are held Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays astatine 10:59 p.m. ET successful Tallahassee, Florida.
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