One other Powerball drawing ended with no winner Saturday evening, sending the jackpot hovering to an estimated $900 million.
No ticket for Saturday’s drawing matched the successful mixture: white balls 2, 9, 43, 55, 57 and purple Powerball 18. The jackpot was estimated at $875 million.
Ticket patrons for Monday’s drawing have an opportunity at both $900 million paid out in yearly increments or a $465.1 million, one-time lump sum earlier than taxes.
The highest prize is the third greatest Powerball jackpot and the seventh largest in U.S. lottery historical past, Powerball stated in an announcement early Sunday.
Whereas there was no jackpot winner, Powerball stated three tickets that matched all 5 white balls Saturday are eligible to assert $1 million prizes, together with two in Texas and one in Colorado.
The jackpot will continue to grow till somebody wins.
The sport’s abysmal odds of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to construct huge prizes that draw extra gamers. The most important Powerball jackpot was $2.04 billion in November.
The final time somebody received the Powerball jackpot was April 19 for a prime prize of almost $253 million. Since then, nobody has received the grand prize prior to now 37 consecutive drawings.
Powerball is performed in 45 states, in addition to Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.