MIAMI – When the Powerball numbers are drawn Wednesday evening, a lucky lottery participant somewhere in the state could be entering the new 12 months as a multi-millionaire.
The Powerball jackpot climbed to an believed $685 million right after no ticket matched all 6 figures to nab the grand prize for the duration of Monday night’s Xmas drawing. It has a lump-sum choice of an believed $344.7 million.
The figures drawn Monday ended up 5, 12, 20, 24, 29 and Powerball 4.
This is the fourth Powerball jackpot to reach more than fifty percent a billion dollars this calendar year, according to Powerball. A ticket in California received the past Powerball jackpot, $1.765 billion, in Oct.
The in general odds of profitable a prize are 1 in 24.9, but the odds of scoring the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
Powerball tickets value $2, and drawings are every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
You can look at the drawings on CBS News Miami, the formal household of the Florida Lottery.
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