For the July 19, 2023, $1.08 billion Powerball drawing, it took pretty much 3 months and far more than 30 rollovers. For the ninth time in the history of Powerball and Mega Millions, a jackpot has reached $1 billion. The jackpot was last won on Oct. 11 when a lottery player in California won the $1.765 billion jackpot. Nobody matched all six numbers to win the Mega Millions jackpot. Decide on your Mega Millions numbers right here to be in with a likelihood of becoming the subsequent winner.

The final time a Powerball jackpot was last hit was April 19, 2023, when a ticket in Ohio matched all five white balls and the red Powerball to win a grand prize worth $252.6 million. The lottery jackpot was an estimated $460 million with a cash selection of $220.four million for Monday night's drawing, according to the Powerball site. The $960 million prize is for a sole winner who chooses an annuity, with annual payments more than 30 years. Winners practically always take the cash alternative, which for Saturday's drawing would be an estimated $441 million. Wednesday night's Powerball drawing did not generate a massive winner on an estimated $374 million jackpot. If a winner was drawn, they could have walked away with extra than $173.five million with a cash selection, according to the lottery.

The Powerball jackpot continues to raise with every subsequent draw till it is won. There is no limit to how high the jackpot can get and has on a quantity of occasions surpassed $1 billion. No 1 won the Powerball on Saturday so that jackpot is now at an estimated $532 million with a cash solution of $260.1 million heading into Monday night's drawing. 3 tickets in Saturday's drawing won million-dollar prizes for matched all five white balls. A ticket sold in Ohio won $2 million and tickets purchased in Florida and New York are worth $1 million.

The winning ticket for the $842.four million Powerball jackpot was bought Monday night at a liquor and meals shop in Grand Blanc, which is situated close to Flint. Monday night’s Powerball jackpot drawing has ballooned to $810 million — the fifth largest in the game’s history, according to the lottery. And the winners of the biggest jackpots ever each came from California. To place the immensity of that into context, note that for Monday’s drawing players across the country chose just more than 20% of these feasible combinations. That indicates powerball almost 80% of the possible combinations have been not chosen, so the odds have been fairly good that there wouldn’t be a winner. When the numbers are selected, it ordinarily takes a couple hours to identify if there is a jackpot winner.

In March 2019, Wisconsin had a record-setting $768.four million jackpot winner with a ticket sold at a Speedway in New Berlin. The winning ticket is the second largest Powerball jackpot in U.S. lottery history and fourth largest all-time lottery jackpot. Most recently, in June 2020, two Wisconsin mates from the Menomonie region split the Powerball jackpot of $22 million with a ticket bought at Synergy Coop Exit 45 in Menomonie. The largest in lottery prize history was a Powerball jackpot from November 2022, although lottery officials did not reveal the winner’s name till February of this year. It is also the jackpot whose lump sum money value is the closest to $1 billion, at $997.six million.

If a single winning ticket is sold in the next Powerball drawing, the winner will have the alternative of getting their winnings over 30 annual installments or as a money lump sum of $408.9 million. The Powerball jackpot rose to an estimated $875 million ahead of Saturday's drawing, growing to the third-biggest prize in the game's history, the lottery announced. If Saturday's drawing has a winner and they opt for the cash alternative, they could go residence with an estimated $122.5 million, according to the lottery. That would push the jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing to much more than $2 billion. Powerball® could provide the ultimate gift to a lottery player this Christmas! The jackpot now stands at an estimated $638 million for the subsequent drawing on Christmas night.

After A TICKET HAS BEEN Bought, IT Can't BE CANCELLED. Players have 180 days from the date of the Powerball drawing to claim prizes. For jackpot prizes, you may decide on either 29 years (30 payments) or the lump sum money option when you claim your prize at Washington's Lottery.

The winning numbers from the Wednesday, July 12 drawing are 23, 35, 45, 66 and 67. The jackpot was last won on Aug. 3 evening when a lottery player in Pennsylvania took residence $206.9 million. The winning numbers from the Monday, Dec. 11 drawing were 1, 24, 27, 31 and 62. The winning numbers from the Wednesday, Sept. 21 drawing had been 16, 27, 59, 62 and 63.

This Mega Millions jackpot has rolled more than given that April 21. Just before that, 1 ticket bought in New York matched all six numbers to win the $476 million Mega Millions jackpot (cash alternative was $253.1 million). A retired handyman named Johnnie Taylor, 71, claimed New York's biggest powerball Mega Millions prize. He chose to take the lump sum payment of $157,288,402, news reports show. Taylor won the April 14 jackpot following purchasing the ticket from Liberty Beer and Convenience in Queens, New York.