What would be the fifth-highest jackpot in Powerball history – an estimated $865 million – is up for grabs Wednesday night, a day after a ticket in New Jersey won a Mega Millions grand prize worth more than $1 billion.Are you a winner? Tonight’s winning numbers are: 37, 46, 57, 60, 66 and red Powerball 8If Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot is won, it would be the fifth-largest grand prize in that game’s history. The jackpot jumped from $800 million after no tickets matched all six numbers in Monday night’s drawing.A jackpot winner in Wednesday’s Powerball drawing could choose to receive the money in annuitized payments or take a lump sum estimated at $416.1 million.The drawing will come a day after Tuesday’s momentous Mega Millions prize. Tuesday’s estimated $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot was won by a ticket sold in the Garden State, lottery officials said without immediately saying where in New Jersey the ticket was sold. The second Powerball jackpot to surpass $800 million this yearThis is the second Powerball jackpot to surpass $800 million this year. The Powerball grand prize was last won in January, when a ticket in Michigan scored a prize worth $842.4 million. Since then, 36 consecutive drawings have taken place without a jackpot winner, according to Powerball.Winning the Powerball jackpot means a ticket matched all five white balls plus the red Powerball. The odds of winning any prize in a Powerball drawing are 1 in 24.9, and the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, according to the lottery.The largest Powerball jackpot prize – and the largest U.S. lottery prize – ever won was $2.04 billion by a ticket purchased in California in November 2022, according to the lottery.Powerball tickets cost $2 per play and are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings are held Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10:59 p.m. ET in Tallahassee, Florida.
What would be the fifth-highest jackpot in Powerball history – an estimated $865 million – is up for grabs Wednesday night, a day after a ticket in New Jersey won a Mega Millions grand prize worth more than $1 billion.
Are you a winner? Tonight’s winning numbers are:
37, 46, 57, 60, 66 and red Powerball 8
If Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot is won, it would be the fifth-largest grand prize in that game’s history. The jackpot jumped from $800 million after no tickets matched all six numbers in Monday night’s drawing.
A jackpot winner in Wednesday’s Powerball drawing could choose to receive the money in annuitized payments or take a lump sum estimated at $416.1 million.
The drawing will come a day after Tuesday’s momentous Mega Millions prize. Tuesday’s estimated $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot was won by a ticket sold in the Garden State, lottery officials said without immediately saying where in New Jersey the ticket was sold.
The second Powerball jackpot to surpass $800 million this year
This is the second Powerball jackpot to surpass $800 million this year. The Powerball grand prize was last won in January, when a ticket in Michigan scored a prize worth $842.4 million. Since then, 36 consecutive drawings have taken place without a jackpot winner, according to Powerball.
Winning the Powerball jackpot means a ticket matched all five white balls plus the red Powerball. The odds of winning any prize in a Powerball drawing are 1 in 24.9, and the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, according to the lottery.
The largest Powerball jackpot prize – and the largest U.S. lottery prize – ever won was $2.04 billion by a ticket purchased in California in November 2022, according to the lottery.
Powerball tickets cost $2 per play and are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings are held Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10:59 p.m. ET in Tallahassee, Florida.
