The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.04 billion immediately after no players hit it major Saturday night, continuing a stretch of lottery futility lasting for much more than two months. The odds of hitting the Powerball jackpot are 292,201,388 to 1. A player who buys a $2 ticket has about a 1 in 11,688,053 likelihood to match 5 numbers and win at least $1 million, though the odds are 913,129 to 1 to win a third prize of at least $50,000. A lucky Michigan Lottery player won $1 million by matching all five white balls on a ticket purchased at a 7-Eleven store in Fraser, Michigan. As of Sept. 30, the $1.08 billion Powerball jackpot winner has not come forward.

Public disclosure laws vary by state, according to the Mega Millions and Powerball lottery games' web-sites — therefore, winners have to verify with the lottery in their jurisdiction. Below are some often asked queries about Powerball, Mega Millions, recent jackpot winners and lottery odds. The lump sum payment just before taxes would be about $252.4 million.

The numbers are in for the Saturday, May possibly 13 lottery jackpot worth an estimated $125 million, with a cash option of $67.2 million. The most current Mega Millions jackpot, reportedly landed by a lucky winner in Maine in January, 2023, was worth an estimated $1.35 billion. It was the fifth billion-dollar lottery jackpot in US history, and the second-biggest top rated prize in the Mega Millions’ 20-year history. Powerball tickets are sold in 45 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. According to Powerball, a lot more than half of all proceeds from ticket sales keep in the jurisdiction exactly where the ticket was sold. Half of ticket sales fund jackpot prizes, 35% "benefits the excellent causes supported by lotteries," 9% goes to operating expenses and six% is for retailer commissions.

The South Carolina Education Lottery Commission did reveal that the winner chose the cash choice for their prize, taking a one-time payment of roughly $878 million. It really is not a record jackpot, but that number nonetheless represents the largest payout to a single lottery winner in U.S. history — at least for now. Even even though the jackpot was won by a single ticket, there had been 11.2 million tickets that won money prizes out of all the ones that sold. This incorporated 22 tickets that won $1 million prizes, these are the ones that matched the initially five white numbers that didn't include the Powerball number. On Monday, the jackpot was $1.9 billion but it was adjusted to $2.04 billion by Tuesday after the technical problems have been solved.

If you correctly pick all the white balls but miss the red Powerball, you are guaranteed $1 million and can win $2 million if the Energy Play is 2x by way of 10x. As described apkkart.com, to win the grand prize, you will have to match all 5 white ball numbers and the red Powerball. Now at $700 million, the lottery jackpot is set to be the eight largest of all time, according to Powerball.com.

If you appropriately choose all the white balls but miss the red Powerball, you happen to be guaranteed $1 million and can win $two million if the Energy Play is 2x via 10x. Nobody has claimed a large prize-winning ticket from the Sept. 13 drawing. To hit the jackpot, you require to match all five principal balls plus the red Powerball. The odds of doing so are around 1 in 292,201,338 which means you have slightly much more opportunity of winning it than the Mega Millions jackpot at 1 in 302,575,350. You can buy tickets at gas stations, convenience stores and supermarkets in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. No one particular has won Powerball since July 18, when a ticket in California won the lottery's $1.08 billion jackpot.

Powerball players may possibly opt for to play as quite a few as ten (10) consecutive future drawings. The Advance Play section of the playslip must be appropriately marked or the retailer can select it at the time of obtain. If a player redeems a winning ticket with advance plays left on it, the machine will print a replacement ticket with the numbers and remaining draw dates printed on it. On June 2, 2010, Ohio won a Powerball jackpot it became the initially lottery promoting either Mega Millions or Powerball (when 2010 began) to deliver a jackpot-winning ticket for its newer game. The ticket was worth a $261 million annuity it was sold in Sunbury.