(CNN) – When the future Powerball numbers are drawn Wednesday night, a blessed lottery player someplace in the country could head into the vacations with a $572 million jackpot.
That’s for the reason that no tickets matched the numbers for the $543 million prize in Monday night’s drawing
The successful numbers were 5 – 8 – 19 – 34 – 39 and the Powerball number was 26.
A winner in Wednesday’s drawing could select to receive the income in annuitized payments or acquire the $286 million lump sum.
There ended up five Powerball jackpots awarded this yr, with profitable tickets purchased in Washington, Virginia, Ohio, and California, according to the lottery.
This is the fourth Powerball jackpot to arrive at a lot more than 50 percent a billion bucks this year, in accordance to Powerball. A ticket in California received the very last Powerball jackpot, $1.765 billion, in Oct.
The scarcity of Powerball jackpot winners displays the game’s overwhelming odds of 1 in 292.2 million.
Powerball tickets price tag $2, and drawings are each Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
You can observe the drawings on CBS News Miami, the formal home of the Florida Lottery.
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