DES MOINES, Iowa — The numbers have been drawn for an estimated $747 million Powerball jackpot and gamers should now wait to be taught whether or not there’s a huge winner.
The numbers drawn late Monday evening had been 05, 11, 22, 23, 69 and the Powerball 07.
Nobody has gained the jackpot since Nov. 19, 2022, permitting the prize to develop bigger with every of the sport’s three weekly drawings. It now stands because the ninth-largest in U.S. historical past.
Lottery officers usually take hours earlier than saying whether or not there was a successful ticket bought.
The $747 million jackpot is for winners who go for an annuity paid over 29 years. Greater rates of interest have allowed these annuity funds to extend in contrast with earlier jackpots, when charges had been decrease.
Most winners choose money, which for Monday evening’s drawing could be $403.1 million.
The sport’s abysmal odds of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to construct huge prizes drawing extra gamers. That technique actually has labored just lately, as somebody in Maine gained a $1.35 billion Mega Thousands and thousands prize in January and a California participant hit a document $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot final November. Nobody has claimed both of these prizes.
Powerball is performed in 45 states, in addition to Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
