Powerball Jackpot Soars To $535 Million
At $535 million, the drawing would be the eighth largest lottery jackpot.
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At $535 million, the drawing would be the eighth largest lottery jackpot.
After Wednesday night's Powerball drawing yielded no jackpot winners, the prize climbed from $430 million to a gargantuan $510 million.
There was yet again no Powerball winner after a drawing Saturday night, so the jackpot will roll over to the next drawing on Wednesday night.
In the seven years since all U.S. lotteries began selling both Powerball and Mega Millions tickets, both games have never offered prizes so large at the same time.
Just in case you need to double check those tickets, Friday's winning Mega Millions numbers were 25, 17, 71, 9, 63 and the Mega Ball being 4.
A winning $100,000 Powerball ticket was sold in Philadelphia earlier this week.
A winning Powerball ticket worth $1 million was sold in Philadelphia this weekend.
At least one lucky person in California had all the winning numbers drawn on Saturday's Powerball drawing, lottery officials said.
The winning numbers for the Powerball jackpot are in and an Indiana ticketholder won the $435.3 million prize.
The ticket matched all five white balls drawn – three, seven, nine, 31 and 33, but not the Powerball.
It's not a record jackpot, but someone broke the bank in Saturday night's Powerball lottery drawing.
The Powerball jackpot is on the upswing again, growing to more than $400 million on the Thanksgiving holiday.
Powerball officials say one ticket sold in New Hampshire matches all six numbers in the Powerball drawing worth $487 million.
Saturday's $487 million jackpot is the nation's eighth-largest lottery jackpot
The amount is number 11 on the list of biggest lottery prizes in history.
Eight family members people share the winning ticket.
The winner of the $429.6 million Powerball jackpot has yet to come forward to claim the prize,
"This is so exciting'!" said clerk Luis Sandoval.
Someone is holding onto the sole winning Powerball ticket that was sold in New Jersey and is worth $429.6 million, lottery officials said Sunday.
This pot has been growing since March 2, after a 67-year-old man in Florida claimed the previous Powerball jackpot of $291.4 million. Powerball numbers are drawn each week on Wednesday and tonight's.
The Powerball jackpot has climbed to $415 million, making Saturday night's prize the largest since a record $1.6 billion payout in January.
Powerball says the odds of winning the top prize are one in more than 292 million.
With no big winner in Saturday night's Powerball drawing, the jackpot now stands at $348 million.
The current jackpot for the national lottery has reached $314 million after going weeks without a winner. The next drawing is Saturday night. If a winner isn't drawn, the pot will grow even bigger. The last jackpot to reach this level eventually grew to become the largest in U.S. history -- $1.5 billion.
One winning Powerball ticket worth $1 million from the Saturday's drawing was sold at Hometown Deli along the 800 block of Durham Road in Newtown.
