Key takeaways:
- The Powerball lottery draw on Saturday night ended without a winner, pushing the jackpot past the $1 billion mark.
- The estimated prize heading into the next Powerball drawing on Monday is the fourth in the game’s history to surpass $1 billion.
- Powerball is a popular lottery game played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Powerball lottery draw on Saturday night ended without a winner, pushing the jackpot past the $1 billion mark. No ticket matched the draw’s five numbers (19, 30, 37, 44, and 46) plus its red Powerball result (22). This marks the fourth-most-valuable Powerball jackpot and the 32nd consecutive drawing without a winner.
The estimated prize heading into the next Powerball drawing on Monday is the fourth in the game’s history to surpass $1 billion. The other three times the Powerball jackpot climbed past the $1 billion mark were in January 2016, when a $1.586 billion grand prize was won, and in July 2023, when a $1.08 billion prize was won by a ticket holder in California.
The draw revealed two $2 million, multiplier-enhanced tickets, in Indiana and North Carolina, and five $1 million tickets, one each in Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and two in Florida.
Powerball is a popular lottery game played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Players must pick five numbers from 1 to 69, plus a Powerball number from 1 to 26. The odds of winning the grand prize are 1 in 292.2 million.
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