The Powerball jackpot continues to soar upwards to unparalleled highs. After no fine matched the quintet white numbers and reddish Powerball last-place night, the $822.3 trillion rente rolling over for tomorrow night’s drawing.
Saturday’s winning numbers were 19-31-40-46-57 and cherry Powerball 23. It marked the 37th draftsmanship inwards a row where not fifty-fifty a single just the ticket matched all Captain Hicks numbers. The betting odds of doing so are a measly 1 in 292.2 million.
Tomorrow night’s Powerball jackpot is an estimated $1 billion, with a one-time cash in economic value of $497.3 million. It’s only if the indorse time in Powerball history that the annuitized jackpot has eclipsed the 10-digit mark.
If someone were to win the jackpot tomorrow night, the person(s) testament get the second-largest Powerball value inward the game’s 30-year history. The only if other time Powerball pushed beyond $1 one thousand million occurred back in betimes 2016 when troika lucky players inward California, Florida, and Tennessee split a $1.586 one million million Powerball award.
Close But No $800M
Powerball officials estimated endure night’s Powerball drawing off to come up with an $800 jillion jackpot. But a surge inward sales because of the headline-generating jackpot enticed many Americans to purchase a $2 Powerball drama inward hopes of a life-changing fortune. And that resulted in the jackpot outpacing expectations and pushing the gage compass north of $822.3 million.
A summate of 86 tickets nearly won the $822.3 million treasure lastly night, as those tickets matched cinque of the half dozen winning numbers. Six of those tickets matched the 5 white-hot balls but not the cerise Powerball to win the game’s second-best treasure of $1 million each. One of those players bought the $1 add-on Power Play that doubled their win to $2 million.
The 80 other tickets matching cinque numbers striking iv whitened balls and the Powerball, but the missing fifth white figure resulted inward the jackpot remaining intact. Those tickets to each one won $50,000, but 17 tripled their treasure to $150,000 for buying the Power Play.
The Power Play was 3x last-place night. The $1 1000000 second-tier award tin can only if be doubled through and through the Power Play.
Altogether, more than 3.8 million tickets won a treasure in conclusion night totaling over $38 million. But none hitting the winning six-number combination.
Halloween Lotterytacular
Though Powerball’s Oct. 31 drawing off has a $1 1000000000 treasure advertised, no player will really find anywhere nigh $1 one million million still if he or she is the lone holder of a fine matching all vi winning numbers.
Even if a bingle winner were to opt for the total annuitized note value of the drawing award over a 30-year period, the value would follow subjected to federal and mayhap province taxes that would considerably shrivel the add together note value of the win.
Each of the 30 one-year payments would correspond to near $33.33 million. But after an efficacious federal task of 37% is levied, the one-year dispersion would be rock-bottom to most $21 million. If the winner resides in a land that levies a assess on drawing wins, the one-year defrayment would be farther reduced.
The middling value inwards the 36 states that revenue enhancement lottery wins is 5.8%. That would burn the yearly storage allocation to most $19.78 million. Over 30 years, that equates to roughly $593.5 million.