To take home the jackpot, your ticket must have the same five white numbers – order doesn’t matter – and the one red number.
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No one won the soon-to-be largest lottery jackpot in USA history last night, but there were a few big dollar prizes to be claimed, including one sold in Austin.
The jackpot has ballooned since its November 4 starting point of $40 million. And the giant jackpot is just what officials with the Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs the Powerball game, were hoping for when they adjusted the odds last fall.
At its current estimate of $1.3 billion, the grand prize has a cash value of $806 million, according to Powerball.com, a Multi-State Lottery Association website. She’s not alone, saying the store sold “about $5,000 worth of tickets yesterday”.
Patti McFadden of Fort Myers, Fla., a lottery-playing veteran, said before Saturday’s drawing that she visited multiple Powerball sellers to improve her chances.
The drawing will be held at 10:59 p.m. EST Saturday.
Julian Perez fills out a Powerball ticket, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, in Miami.
The nationwide Powerball frenzy is continuing as the jackpot climbed this weekend to a historic $1.3 billion. At $2 a ticket, the strategy would cost about $584 million, and when taxes are subtracted, you’d end up losing money.
Sales throughout the US were “off the charts” for the latest Powerball draw, the release stated.
The winning numbers for the record $949.8 million Powerball jackpot are 32-16-19-57-34 and Powerball number 13. Gary Grief, the executive director of the Texas Lottery was quoted as saying by the Chicago Tribune that the chance of no one hitting all five initial numbers and the Powerball number was growing slimmer, anticipating that about 75 per cent of all combinations will have been bought.
Spain’s Christmas lottery, called El Gordo (“The Fat One”), is often called the world’s biggest lottery. “We said, ‘Let’s have a little fun”. Smallwood bought 31 tickets with his mother and sister.
“I’d have a good time, I’d go on vacation”, Raymond Sprague said.
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Over in the United Kingdon, there were two winners of the record £66 million (€87.7m) jackpot, BBC News reports.
