Powerball winning numbers drawing yields no winner; lottery jackpot at $1.5B

The Powerball jackpot simply retains rising after no person gained the large jackpot in Wednesday night time’s drawing.

The successful numbers numbers drawn Wednesday night time for a $1.2 billion jackpot had been: 2, 11, 22, 35, 60 and the crimson Powerball 23.

After nobody gained, the jackpot has now grown to $1.5 billion, the third-largest lottery prize in U.S. historical past.

The highest prize for Saturday’s drawing now comes with a money choice of $745.9 million.

Whereas nobody gained the highest prize, there have been quite a lot of smaller winners. Tickets that gained a $2 million prize had been offered in Arkansas, Montana and New Jersey. Tickets price $1 million had been offered in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas and Virginia.

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The largest all-time lottery jackpot was a $1.5863 billion Powerball prize in 2016, with the highest prize shared by three winners in California, Florida and Tennessee.

Powerball is performed in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Odds of successful the Powerball jackpot is 1 in 292 million and tickets are $2 apiece.

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10 largest Mega Tens of millions, Powerball jackpots gained in US lottery historical past

1. $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)

2. $1.537 billion, Mega Tens of millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)

3. $1.337 billion, Mega Tens of millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)

4. $1.05 billion, Mega Tens of millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)

5. $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)

6. $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)

7. $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)

8. $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021 (one ticket, from California)

9. $687.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 27, 2018 (two tickets, from Iowa and New York)

10. $656 million, Mega Tens of millions, March 30, 2012 (three tickets, from Kansas, Illinois and Maryland)

Powerball tickets are $2 per play. Tickets are offered in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.