Did you win? These are the Powerball numbers drawn Monday night

Powerball jackpot climbs to $900 million for Monday's drawing

MIAMI - Lots of people are dreaming about becoming multi-millionaires overnight as the Powerball jackpot has climbed to $900 million for Monday night's drawing.

If you bought a ticket, these were the numbers drawn Monday night at 11 p.m.: 17, 8, 9, 41, 5 and the Powerball was 21.

It's the third-largest prize in the game's history. It has a cash value of $465.1 million.

"I'm going to see if i get lucky here, hit that big one," said Jorge Alfonso as he waiting to buy a ticket. 

"I've won before so if I won that, I would leave the county, I would disappear," said Stephanie Wright.  

She has won two big jackpots, but she doesn't want to reveal how much. 

But she already knows what she would do if this became a three-peat. 

"I'd take care of my children and my family. Probably donate a lot to my church and other organizations that I believe in," she said. 

While you have a very slim chance of winning Jorge Alfonso with the Florida Lottery points out it's possible. 

"Florida's had 373 Powerball winners of a million dollars or more, that includes 16 jackpot winners. So we'er hoping we're going to bring home Florida's 17th Powerball jackpot winner with this drawing tonight," Alfonso said. 

If no one picks the right numbers — this jackpot will get a lot bigger. 

"If nobody wins tonight we could see a roll over well into the over a billion dollars," Alfonso said. 

The jackpot was last hit in April. Since then, there have been 37 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner.

While the overall odds of winning any number of the Powerball prizes are 1 in 24.9, the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, according to the organization.

Tickets cost $2, and drawings are each Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.

If you want to increase your odds of becoming an instant multi-millionaire, you could always play the Mega Millions game. 

The next drawing is Tuesday and the estimated jackpot is $640.

Mega Millions drawings are held Tuesday and Friday, tickets cost $2. 

The odds of winning the jackpot are about 1 in 303 million.

CBS News Miami is your official Florida Lottery station.

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