Powerball jackpot soars to $1.25 billion
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Powerball's jackpot rose to an estimated $1.25 billion after no tickets came up winners of Monday night's grand prize of roughly $1.14 billion.The winning numbers for that drawing were 23, 35, 59, 63 and 68 with a Powerball of 2.
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Did anyone win Powerball? Winning numbers and next drawing for sixth-largest jackpot in history
Powerball's current billion-dollar jackpot has become the sixth largest in the game's history. On Dec. 15, the jackpot rose to $1.15 million with a cash value of $524.7 million before taxes. No one won the Powerball jackpot or the Match 5 + Power Play $2 million prize during Monday night's drawing.
An Arizona lottery player is richer after Monday's Powerball drawing. A Match 5 ticket worth $1 million was sold in Arizona. Here's what we know.
In California one player matched five numbers, without the Powerball. That ticket, sold at Star Market in Salinas, won $708,443. The Powerball jackpot was last won on Sept. 6. The prize of $1.787 billion — won by two players, in Missouri and Texas — was the second-largest Powerball jackpot ever.
LANSING, MI -- The sixth largest Powerball jackpot of all time is up for grabs as the estimated grand prize for the drawing on Monday, Dec. 15 is worth $1.1 billion with a cash option of $503.4 million. Once again, MLive will provide results of the drawing shortly after it takes place at 11 p.m. EST.
Two Powerball tickets worth $200,000 and one worth $50,000 were purchased in New Jersey for Monday night’s lottery drawing. The $200,000 tickets were both sold in Parsippany, Morris County. One was purchased at a Wawa on New Road and the other at the Shell gas station on Route 46 east, lottery officials said.
Power Play: For an added $1 per play, you can win $2 million by matching five white balls or increase non-jackpot prizes by 2X, 3X, 4X, or 5X. If the jackpot is $150 million or lower, a 10X multiplier is included. Select five numbers between 1 and 69 for the white balls, then select one number between 1 and 26 for the red Powerball.
A Powerball ticket worth $2 million was sold at a convenience store in Beaver County over the weekend. The ticket matched five of the five white balls drawn, 1-28-31-57-58, in the Saturday, Dec. 13, drawing, according to a press release from the Pennsylvania Lottery.
Days before Christmas, the Powerball jackpot has soared to $1.25 billion after no one claimed the prize Monday night. The next drawing will be Wednesday night. If someone wins the jackpot, this would be the sixth-largest prize in the game’s history and the second-largest prize this year.