Powerball jackpot passes $1B for Monday's drawing
The jackpot is now worth $1.04 billion, and it is up for grabs for Monday's drawing.
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The jackpot is now worth $1.04 billion, and it is up for grabs for Monday's drawing.
There have been 30 consecutive drawings without a winner since mid-July.
It's the ninth-largest jackpot in lottery history.
It's listed as the fourth-largest Powerball jackpot in history.
On Monday night, someone matched four numbers and the Powerball Plus with the game's Powerplay feature winning $100,000.
A lucky grand prize winner will have a choice between payments worth $785 million or a lump payment of $367 million. If you are playing Monday night, your odds of winning are one in 292.2 million.
That jackpot was worth an estimated $750 million. That means the prize is going to get bigger.
You'll have another chance to try your luck Monday night.
If you're feeling lucky, you may want to stop and pick up a Powerball ticket for Saturday night's drawing.
This weekend, lottery players will have three chances to become millionaires with three games taking place starting Friday.
The winning online player matched all five numbers to win the prize.
The last big prize was worth $22.5 million and was won at a gas station in Prospect Heights in 2018.
One winning ticket was sold in Florida for the Mega Millions jackpot — the third largest in U.S. lottery history.
There has not been a Mega Millions jackpot winner since April 18.
There's been no big winner since April 18 - which means 31 drawings have come and gone without a big winner.
The pot of gold soared after no winning tickets were sold for Tuesday night's estimated $1.1 billion grand prize.
The next drawing happens Tuesday night.
There have been no Mega Millions jackpot winners since April 18.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are about one in 302.58 million.
How would you like to have a chance at the big jackpot without having to spend your own money?
It would be the third-largest jackpot in the game's history and seventh-highest in U.S. lottery history.
No winner was drawn Friday night for Mega Millions - meaning the $560-million jackpot will grow yet again. For Powerball, there hasn't been a grand prize winner since mid-April. Read more
The last time somebody won the Powerball jackpot was back on April 19, when a ticket purchased in Ohio matched all six numbers to bring home a $252.6 million prize.
The drawing is now the sixth-largest jackpot for Powerball and the 10th-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.
The Mega Millions drawing is worth $427 million and Saturday's Powerball jackpot stands at $590 million.
