MIAMI – When the up coming Powerball quantities are drawn Saturday evening, a fortunate lottery participant somewhere in the country could head into the vacations with a $620 million jackpot.
That is mainly because no tickets matched the numbers for the $572 million prize in Wednesday night’s drawing
The profitable figures had been 27, 35, 41, 56, 60 and Powerball 16.
A winner in Saturday’s drawing could pick out to receive the funds in annuitized payments or get the $311 million lump sum.
There were being 5 Powerball jackpots awarded this yr, with profitable tickets bought in Washington, Virginia, Ohio, and California, according to the lottery.
This is the fourth Powerball jackpot to attain much more than half a billion pounds this 12 months, according to Powerball. A ticket in California won the 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 cost $2, and drawings are each individual Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
You can check out the drawings on CBS News Miami, the official home of the Florida Lottery.
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