The multimillion-dollar powerball draw had no winners and more than $ 2.3 billion will be up for grabs for the next edition on Wednesday, according to US lottery projections.
The current prize of $ 2.04 billion was vacated and surpassed the historic jackpot of $ 1.586 million won in 2016. The winning numbers were 10, 22, 41, 47 and 56. The powerball number was 10.
The full advertised prize amount is for winners who agree to receive the prize for 30 years, in one annual installment. That is, the total divided into 30 payments over three decades.
However, winners often choose the cash option. In this case, the cash prize was reduced to less than half of the $ 2.04 billion. Sure, it was 929 million dollars anyway.
The huge jackpot came after no one won the $ 1.6 billion prize on Saturday. There have been 40 consecutive Powerball draws without a winner.
No one has guessed all six numbers and he has won the first prize since August 3, when Pennsylvania hit a jackpot of $ 206.9 million.
The odds of hitting the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, according to Powerball officials.
Powerball is played in 45 states, plus Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
How to play and prizes
To play you have to choose 5 numbers between 1 and 69. And then, the Powerball between 1 and 26. The winner, of course, is the one who guesses all 6 numbers, not easy.
But the lottery also gives prizes to those bettors who can’t guess all the numbers. People who can guess 5 of the 6 numbers will receive a million dollars.
On the other hand, if they hit 4 out of 6 numbers, the lottery will pay out $ 50,000 for every bettor who hits it.
Source: Clarin
