The Powerball jackpot has risen to an estimated $1.2 billion after no person matched all six numbers in Monday’s drawing. Monday’s profitable numbers had been 12, 26, 27, 43, 47 and a Powerball of 5.
Though there have been no jackpot winners, one ticket in Delaware and one other in Michigan matched the primary 5 numbers to win $1 million every. A ticket offered in New York and one other offered in South Carolina additionally matched the primary 5 numbers and had been bought with the facility play bonus, upping the prize for these winners to $2 million.
The estimated jackpot for Wednesday evening’s drawing is the third-largest in Powerball historical past, leapfrogging the $1.08 billion prize claimed with a single profitable ticket offered in California in July 2023. The second-highest jackpot was a $1.586 billion greenback prize cut up between three winners in California, Florida and Tenessee again in 2016.
The most important prize in Powerball historical past was a $2.04 billion jackpot in Nov. 2022, with a profitable ticket offered in California.
Powerball drawings occur weekly on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights, starting at 10:59 p.m. ET on the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee. Tickets value $2 every with the choice so as to add an influence play for an extra $1 for an opportunity to extend any prize cash gained. The ability play doesn’t enhance a participant’s probabilities of profitable, that are 1 in 292,201,338 for the jackpot, in accordance with Powerball.
Jackpot winners have the choice of receiving a lump sum cost or having their winnings doled out in installments over a interval of 30 years. If a single ticket had been to match all six balls drawn on Wednesday, a winner who selected the lump sum possibility would take house an estimated $551.7 million earlier than taxes, in accordance with Powerball.
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