The Powerball jackpot soared to an estimated $1.7 billion for Saturday night time’s drawing after no tickets got here up winners of Wednesday’s $1.4 grand prize, Powerball stated. Saturday’s pot of gold would have an estimated money worth of $770.3 million. Each totals are earlier than taxes.
The profitable numbers in Wednesday’s drawing have been 3, 16, 29, 61 and 69, with a Powerball of twenty-two.
Saturday’s windfall can be the third-biggest in U.S. lottery historical past, solely trailing the world-record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot gained on Nov. 7, 2022 and the $1.765 billion jackpot captured on Oct. 11, 2023. Each have been gained in California.
And since jackpots develop as increasingly more tickets are purchased as jackpots method, there’s an opportunity Saturday’s prime prize might eclipse the present runner-up and take the No. 2 spot.
Together with the upcoming drawing, there have been six jackpots of greater than $1 billion in Powerball’s 33-year historical past.
To date this yr, the Powerball jackpot has been grabbed 4 occasions.
Saturday’s drawing would be the forty second for the reason that Powerball jackpot was final gained on Might 31, 2025, in California. The present streak has tied the sport’s file for probably the most consecutive drawings with no jackpot winner. The one different Powerball jackpot run to succeed in 42 drawings ended on April 6, 2024, with a $1.326 billion jackpot gained in Oregon.
If a single ticket wins Saturday’s jackpot, its purchaser would get to decide on an annuity-tied estimated $1.70 billion or a lump sum cost of roughly $770.3 million — the money worth. If a winner picks the annuity possibility, they might get an instantaneous cost adopted by 29 annual ones that enhance by 5-percent annually.
The percentages of profitable the highest prize are 1 in 292.2 million, in accordance with Powerball. Drawings happen each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 11 p.m. ET.
Powerball tickets are bought in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
