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(NewsNation) — Two radical played their cards close successful Missouri and Texas Saturday night, winning the second-largest-in-history Powerball drawing, and they volition divided the $1.8 cardinal jackpot.
Numbers were selected precocious Saturday: 11, 23, 44, 61, 62 and Powerball 17.
The prize ballooned to that near-historic sum aft the lottery held much than 40 consecutive drawings without anyone matching six numbers. The lottery rolls implicit the winnings erstwhile nary 1 hits the jackpot.
The game's unspeakable likelihood of 1 successful 292.2 cardinal are designed to make large jackpots and ever-larger prizes. The largest jackpot connected record, $2.04 billion, was drawn successful 2022 and went to a California summons buyer.
More than 9.9 cardinal tickets won currency prizes successful past night’s drawing, according to a Powerball property release.
If there’s a winner, helium oregon she tin opt to person 30 payments implicit 29 years done an annuity. But winners astir ever take the game’s currency option, which for this drafting would beryllium an estimated $826.4 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.
The Powerball jackpot resets to $20 cardinal for the adjacent drafting connected Monday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
