Powerball $825M winning numbers for 10/29

WASHINGTON — The near-record Powerball jackpot skyrocketed to an estimated $825 million forward of Saturday evening’s drawing.

Saturday’s winning numbers have been 19-31-40-46-57, Powerball: 23, Power Play: 3 

The $825 million Powerball jackpot is the sport’s second-largest prize ever and the fifth-largest in U.S. history. There has been no grand prize winner since Aug. 3 — that is 36 consecutive drawings with no massive winner.

The odds of winning the jackpot are an abysmal one in 292.2 million. The lengthy odds are designed to restrict jackpot winners, which in flip permits the grand prize to swell.

Jackpot winners who select to take their riches by means of an annuity, paid yearly over 29 years. Nearly all winners decide for money, which for Saturday’s drawing could be an estimated $410.2 million.

Those winnings additionally could be topic to federal taxes. Many states tax lottery winnings, too.

Powerball is performed in 45 states, in addition to Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Powerball holds the world file for largest jackpot with a whopping $1.586 billion prize received in 2016. That prize was shared by winners in Tennessee, Florida and California.

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1. $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)
2. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)
3. $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)
4. $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)
5. $825 million (estimated) Powerball, Oct. 29, 2022
6. $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)
7. $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)
8. $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)
9. $687.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 27, 2018 (two tickets, from Iowa and New York)
10. $656 million, Mega Millions, March 30, 2012 (three tickets, from Kansas, Illinois and Maryland)

Powerball jackpot winners have the choice of receiving an annuity cost, paid over 29 years, or a lump sum cost. There have been 5 Powerball jackpot winners to this point in 2022.

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