Santa may need a big current in his bag on Christmas Eve, when the estimated jackpot for that evening’s drawing will probably be an estimated $1.7 billion — the fourth largest in Powerball and U.S. lottery historical past.
That is as a result of no tickets got here up winners of Monday evening’s pot of gold of an estimated $1.6 billion jackpot.
The successful numbers for that one have been 3, 18, 36, 41 and 54, with a Powerball of seven.
Wednesday evening’s grand prize would have an estimated lump sum money worth of $781.3 million.
The Powerball jackpot has been received as soon as on Christmas Eve, in 2011, and 4 instances on Christmas Day, the sport says. Powerball began in 1992.
Wednesday’s drawing would be the forty seventh within the present jackpot run, a report for essentially the most in a Powerball jackpot cycle, the sport says.
To win the jackpot, a ticket should match all 5 white balls and the pink Powerball pulled throughout a drawing. A single jackpot winner would have the selection of a lump sum cost or a payout through an annuity that might consist of 1 rapid cost adopted by 29 annual funds that enhance by 5% annually. Each the lump sum money estimate and the annuity estimate are earlier than taxes.
The final time a Powerball jackpot was hit was on Sept. 6 in Missouri and Texas, when two tickets cut up a $1.787 billion prime prize.
That is solely the second time within the recreation’s historical past with back-to-back jackpots exceeding $1 billion, Powerball says.
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.
The odds of successful the grand prize are 1 in 292.2 million, in line with Powerball. Lottery jackpots have exploded in dimension during the last decade, whereas the percentages of successful have gotten even slimmer.
Tickets value $2 every and are bought in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings happen each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 11 p.m. ET.
