The profitable numbers for Powerball’s Wednesday evening drawing have been launched. And lottery gamers are checking their tickets.
Powerball’s estimated jackpot climbed to $439 million, with a money choice of $237.3 million, for Wednesday’s drawing.
Nobody has gained the sport’s high prize since Nov. 19, in response to Powerball – inflicting the jackpot to develop larger and better in current months. The percentages of profitable a Powerball jackpot stay extraordinarily slim, standing at about 1 in 292.2 million.
Wednesday evening’s drawing follows a number of historic lottery wins that the U.S. has seen in current months:
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This is what else you might want to know.
Powerball profitable numbers: 1/18/23
The profitable numbers for Wednesday evening’s drawing are 6, 15, 22, 42, 47, and the Powerball is 26. The Energy Play was 3X.
Did anybody win Powerball on Wednesday?
There was no winner so the jackpot will climb to $473 million for Saturday’s drawing with a money choice of $255.7 million, in response to the Powerball web site.
How do I play Powerball?
To enter Powerball, gamers choose 5 numbers from one to 69 for the white balls, and one quantity from one to 26 for the purple Powerball. You may select numbers by yourself or let the lottery terminal randomly choose for you.
To win the jackpot, you might want to match the numbers for all 5 white balls and the purple Powerball.
Except for the grand prize, relying on what number of balls are matched, there are eight further methods you may win a Powerball prize throughout the sport’s non-jackpot tiers.
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Non-jackpot prizes begin at $4 and go as much as $1 million. For an additional $1, you may choose into “Powerplay” – which multiplies non-jackpot profitable prizes by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10. The 10X Powerplay is barely out there when the jackpot is $150 million or much less, Powerball notes. The sport’s second-tier “Match 5” prize is capped at $2 million for the Powerplay.
A further add-on function referred to as “Double Play,” which supplies gamers one other probability to match their numbers after every Powerball drawing, is accessible in some jurisdictions for $1 per play.
The place is Powerball performed?
Powerball may be performed in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
What are my possibilities of profitable Powerball?
Whereas many lottery gamers could also be tempted by the estimated $439 million jackpot, it is essential to notice that the percentages of profitable Powerball’s grand prize are extremely slim.
- The percentages of profitable a Powerball jackpot are about 1 in 292.2 million.
- The general odds of profitable a Powerball prize (throughout all tiers) are about 1 in 24.9.
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Largest lottery prizes in US historical past
- $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 7, 2022: Received in California.
- $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016: Three winners in California, Florida, Tennessee.
- $1.537 billion, Mega Tens of millions, Oct. 23, 2018: Received in South Carolina.
- $1.348 billion, Mega Tens of millions, Jan. 13, 2023: Received in Maine
- $1.337 billion, Mega Tens of millions, July 29, 2022: Received in Illinois.
- $1.05 billion, Mega Tens of millions, Jan. 22, 2021: Received in Michigan.
- $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019: Received in Wisconsin.
- $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017: Received in Massachusetts.
- $730 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021: Received in Maryland.
- $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021: Received in California.
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Contributing: Emily DeLetter, The Cincinnati Enquirer; Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star; John Connolly, NorthJersey.com
