For the second time in two days, Powerball officials increased the jackpot due to strong ticket sales.
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The winning numbers drawn Wednesday night were: 02-11-47-62-63, Powerball: 17, Power Play: 3.
Southeast Texans lined up at convenience stores Wednesday for their shot at one of the Powerball Jackpot’s largest prizes in game history, $500 million. Feeling lucky? The odds of winning the jackpot are 1: 292,201,338. Hoosiers have won 38 jackpots, including an incredible back-to-back run in April 2011, when scientist and Hoosier native turned Texas resident Bill Swanson won a $74 million jackpot and plumbers Michael Reardon and Darin Fox subsequently cashed in with a $221 million win in Clarksville. The estimated Powerball jackpot for Wednesday night has soared to $500 million. While the big prize seems so far away, die-hard lottery players know all it takes is that one time for your numbers to hit. The jackpot would be the sixth-largest ever in North America.
According to ABC News, the previous largest Powerball jackpot was $590.5 million in May 2013.
A Mega Millions jackpot reached $656 million in March 2012.
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Powerball is played across 44 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. For some comparison, the chance of being struck by lightning in a year is about one in 960,000. In this case, when you have the chance to be $500 million dollars richer, why not buy a $2 lottery ticket? “They have been coming here for 20 years or more”.
