Powerball jackpot up to $1.6 billion, new lottery record
A drawing will be held Saturday night for the Powerball prize, which hasn't been won in more than three months
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A drawing will be held Saturday night for the Powerball prize, which hasn't been won in more than three months
No one won Wednesday night's top prize of $1.2 billion, so the jackpot for Saturday night's drawing will be very close to the $1.586 billion world record for lotteries.
There were no winning tickets sold for Monday night's Powerball drawing so the grand prize for Wednesday night's selections will be a minimum of roughly $1.2 billion.
The Powerball jackpot keeps getting larger because players keep losing.
The Powerball jackpot has grown even bigger.
The Powerball jackpot ranks as the fifth-largest in U.S. history, though it's good to keep in mind that it has grown so large because no one has hit all six numbers since Aug. 3.
The jackpot has increased steadily since the last grand prize winner was announced on Aug. 3.
By Thursday morning, someone could be $700 million richer from a Powerball drawing that takes place on Wednesday night.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
While winning tickets for the $632 million jackpot were sold in Wisconsin and California, a PowerBall player in Rockville purchased a ticket worth $1 million ahead of the Jan. 5 drawing, Maryland Lottery and Gaming said Tuesday.
While it didn't match all the numbers for the top prize in the Jan. 3 Powerball drawing, a winning ticket good for $2 million was sold in Baltimore late last month, Maryland Lottery and Gaming said Tuesday.
Powerball is adding a third weekly drawing and a new feature called Double Play that will allow players in jurisdictions including Maryland another chance to match their numbers.
The wait is over. The winners of the largest prize in the history of the Maryland Lottery have claimed their $731.1 million prize.
The owner of the western Maryland market that sold a winning $731 million Powerball ticket last month has claimed the $100,000 bonus the store earned for selling the winning ticket.
A 54-year-old Pittsburgh man has claimed the $2 million prize he won in Maryland during the January 20 Powerball jackpot that also saw a $731 million ticket sold in the state.
One of the largest Powerball jackpots in history, where the single winning ticket was sold in Maryland has yet to be claimed!
There has been a jackpot winner in the $730 million Powerball, the first to get the top prize in months.
Two Marylanders got very lucky Wednesday night and won it big in the Powerball!
It might be time to take a chance on that big lottery dream. Maryland Lottery announced that the Powerball and Mega Millions combined jackpot is approaching $1 billion.
Two lottery jackpots sit nearly at a combined $1 billion. In a year where so many have struggled, a winning ticket could change the game for any family brave enough to play.
Someone in Maryland is a whole lot richer just in time for the holidays.
Check your tickets! Someone who bought a ticket at the 7-Eleven in Crofton won $1 million during the Powerball lottery drawing Wednesday.
No winner pushed the jackpot up to $750 million!
It's a split! Players in Iowa and New York will share Saturday's massive Powerball jackpot.
If you bought a Powerball ticket in Pennsylvania for Saturday's drawing, you may be holding a piece of paper worth $457 million.
