Exciting news for lottery enthusiasts as the Powerball jackpot grows
The Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s lottery drawing has jumped to $44 million with a cash option of $20.2 million. The drawing will be held at 10:59 p.m. and televised on WABC-7 in New York City and Fox 29 in Philadelphia. NJ.com will publish the winning numbers after the drawing.
No one across the country hit Wednesday’s $30 million jackpot. There were also no second-prize, $1 million tickets sold. In New Jersey, no one won more than $200 with a single ticket.
Wednesday’s winning numbers were: 1, 2, 3, 57 and 59. The Powerball drawn was 9 with a Power Play of 2x. In addition, no one on Wednesday won the secondary $10 million Double Play jackpot. Those winning numbers were: 1, 34, 38, 60 and 65. The Double Play number was 9.
The odds of hitting the Powerball jackpot are more than 292 million to 1. A player who buys a $2 ticket has about a 1 in 11,688,053 chance to match five numbers but not the Powerball and win a second-prize of at least $1 million. The odds of winning a third prize of at least $50,000 are 913,129 to 1.
Powerball drawings are held each Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tuesday‘s Mega Millions jackpot is worth an estimated $90 million with a cash option of $40.8 million.
