The winning numbers for the Powerball are 11-17-21-23-32 and Powerball 5.
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Before Saturday’s drawing, the largest Powerball jackpot won in the state was in 2003 when a $135.6 million ticket was sold at State Line Store in Center Conway.
The largest all-time biggest lottery prize in North America was was worth almost $1.6 billion in Powerball for three tickets – sold in California, Tennessee and Florida in January.
Last year, officials at the Multi-State Lottery Association, a group of state lotteries that oversees Powerball, changed the odds of winning from 1 in 175 million to 1 in 292.2 million.
Tickets are sold in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. One player matched all the numbers to win the jackpot of $478 million. It was the nation’s eighth-biggest lottery jackpot. They were sold in California, Florida, Georgia, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia. But players have much better odds, of about 1 in 25, of winning smaller prizes ranging from $4 to $1 million.
The lump sum option is worth $330.6 million.
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The next Lotto 47 drawing is Wednesday, August 3 at 7:29 p.m. with a jackpot of $1.9 million.
