The Powerball jackpot has risen to an estimated $1.1 billion, the fifth-largest ever within the recreation’s historical past, after there have been no profitable tickets for Saturday evening’s $1 billion grand prize.
Saturday’s profitable numbers have been 3, 18, 22, 27 and 33, with a Powerball of 17. There have been 9 tickets that matched all 5 white balls to win $1 million, however no ticket matched all six.
The $1.1 billion jackpot for Monday evening’s drawing has an estimated money worth of $498.4 million.
Based mostly on the jackpot estimate, a single jackpot winner Monday would have the selection of taking a lump sum fee of $498.4 million earlier than taxes, or going with the annuity possibility, which might consist of 1 quick fee adopted by 29 annual funds that improve by 5% every year, every fee additionally earlier than taxes.
Saturday’s drawing marked the sixth time within the recreation’s 33-year historical past that the highest prize has climbed to the billion-dollar mark.
Nobody has received Powerball’s jackpot since Could 31, when a single ticket in California received a $204.5 million jackpot with a money worth of $91.6 million.
4 of the 5 earlier billion-plus-jackpot-winning tickets have been offered in California, together with a single ticket offered in Altadena in 2022 that claimed a $2.04 billion jackpot, the largest in each Powerball and lottery historical past.
The subsequent drawing, which takes place from the Florida Lottery dwell draw studio in Tallahassee, is on Monday at 11 p.m. ET. Tickets are $2 and are offered in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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