The winning numbers for Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing were 22, 11, 60, 2, 35, and the Powerball was 23. The Power Play was 2X. Nobody won, but two tickets in California came close, matching five numbers.
The two “5/5” tickets in California were sold at the Eastland Food Market in the Southern California city of Ontario, and at a 7-Eleven in Milpitas, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each is worth $1,044,212, according to the California Lottery.
Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.2 billion after none of the tickets sold matched all six of the winning numbers drawn on Monday. The prize is the fourth-largest in U.S. history. The jackpot now goes to at least $1.5 billion for Saturday’s drawing and could become the largest ever, topping a $1.586 billion Powerball prize won by three ticket holders in 2016.
While winners can receive their winnings through an annual payment plan over 29 years, most grand jackpot winners opt to take the prize in cash — which for Wednesday night’s drawing will be an estimated $596 million.
The biggest prize was a $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot won by three ticket holders in 2016.
No one has won with all six numbers since August and there have been 38 consecutive drawings since then. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, according to Powerball.
Powerball is played in 45 states, and in Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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