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Wednesday marked 37 consecutive Powerball drawings without a winner, causing the jackpot for Saturday's drawing to reach $935 million, the fifth-largest in the lottery's history. On Wednesday, the numbers drawn were white balls 37, 46, 57, 60, 66 and red Powerball 8. The odds of winning the jackpot are about 1 in 292 million.
Powerball also has prizes ranging from $4 to $2 million, and the odds of winning a smaller prize are about 1 in 25. There were nearly 1.7 million winning tickets for smaller prizes on Wednesday. Among the smaller prizes, five tickets on Wednesday hit all five white balls, which pays out at least $1 million.SEE MORE: Winning $1.13 billion Mega Millions lottery ticket sold in New Jersey
The only other winning Powerball ticket sold in 2024 was in Michigan on Jan. 1. The jackpot for that drawing was $842.4 million. Since Powerball lengthened the odds of hitting all six numbers in 2015, the multi-state lottery generally has six to nine winners a year. All 10 of its largest jackpots have also come since 2015. The largest Powerball jackpot in history was $2.04 billion, won on Nov. 7, 2022.
The $935 million jackpot figure is based on the winner choosing the annuity option. If the winner takes the lump sum, that person would win $449.7 million. Both figures are before taxes.
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