The profitable numbers for an estimated $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot — the sport’s second-largest prize ever — are 11, 23, 44, 61, 62 with a Powerball of 17.
Saturday’s jackpot has an estimated money worth of $826.4 million, Powerball mentioned.
It was not instantly recognized if there have been any winners of Saturday’s jackpot.
The highest prize had climbed after no profitable tickets have been bought for Wednesday night time’s $1.4 billion grand prize. There have been six jackpots of greater than $1 billion in Powerball’s 33-year historical past.
“We encourage everybody to play responsibly and take delight in understanding that each $2 ticket additionally helps help good causes of their group,” mentioned Matt Strawn, Powerball Product Group Chair and Iowa Lottery CEO.
Jackpots rise as increasingly more tickets are bought as drawings strategy, and the earlier present holder of fourth place is a $1.326 billion jackpot received in Oregon in April 2024.
A single jackpot winner would have the selection of taking a lump sum cost estimated at $826.4 million or choosing a payout through an annuity, which might consist of 1 instant cost adopted by 29 annual funds that improve by 5% every year.
Nobody has received Powerball’s jackpot since Could 31, when a single ticket in California claimed a $204.5 million jackpot with a money worth of $91.6 million. Thus far this yr, the jackpot has been hit 4 occasions.
The odds of profitable the highest prize are 1 in 292.2 million, in keeping with Powerball. Drawings happen each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 11 p.m. ET.
In 2022, a single ticket bought in Altadena, California, claimed a $2.04 billion jackpot, the largest in each Powerball and lottery historical past. The primary Powerball drawing was in 1992.
Powerball tickets are bought in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and price $2 every.
