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The Powerball jackpot has now grown to an estimated $1.9 billion after no winning tickets had been bought in Saturday evening’s drawing, according to the California Lottery Association.
The winning numbers had been 28-45-53-56-69 and the Powerball was 20. The subsequent Powerball drawing is about for Monday.
Saturday’s estimated $1.6 billion draw had been the “world’s largest lotto prize ever offered,” Powerball said.
But sadly for ticket patrons, the chances of winning the huge prize stay lengthy – simply 1 in 292.2 million.
Having no winners Saturday would “tie the game record for the number of consecutive drawings without a grand prize winner,” Powerball mentioned. Saturday’s drawing on the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee was Powerball’s fortieth for the reason that jackpot was final gained August 3 by a ticket in Pennsylvania.
Saturday’s jackpot, which had a lump-sum choice of an estimated $782.4 million “breaks the world record for the Largest National Lottery Jackpot in the Guinness World Records,” California Lottery tweeted forward of the numbers dropping.
The Guinness World Records’ “Greatest jackpot in a national lottery” was set by Powerball in January 2016, when three tickets gained a $1.586 billion jackpot.
Powerball tickets are $2 per play and are bought in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
