The successful numbers for an estimated $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot — the sport’s second-largest prize ever — are 11, 23, 44, 61, 62 with a Powerball of 17.
Saturday’s jackpot has an estimated money worth of $826.4 million, Powerball mentioned.
It was not instantly identified if there have been any winners of Saturday’s jackpot.
The highest prize had climbed after no successful tickets had been offered for Wednesday evening’s $1.4 billion grand prize. There have been six jackpots of greater than $1 billion in Powerball’s 33-year historical past.
“We encourage everybody to play responsibly and take pleasure in understanding that each $2 ticket additionally helps assist good causes of their neighborhood,” mentioned Matt Strawn, Powerball Product Group Chair and Iowa Lottery CEO.
Jackpots rise as increasingly more tickets are offered as drawings method, and the earlier present holder of fourth place is a $1.326 billion jackpot received in Oregon in April 2024.
A single jackpot winner would have the selection of taking a lump sum cost estimated at $826.4 million or choosing a payout through an annuity, which might consist of 1 speedy cost adopted by 29 annual funds that improve by 5% annually.
Nobody has received Powerball’s jackpot since Might 31, when a single ticket in California claimed a $204.5 million jackpot with a money worth of $91.6 million. Up to now this 12 months, the jackpot has been hit 4 instances.
The odds of successful the highest prize are 1 in 292.2 million, in accordance with Powerball. Drawings happen each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 11 p.m. ET.
In 2022, a single ticket offered in Altadena, California, claimed a $2.04 billion jackpot, the largest in each Powerball and lottery historical past. The primary Powerball drawing was in 1992.
Powerball tickets are offered in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and price $2 every.
