Powerball estimated jackpot at $1.25 billion
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The Powerball jackpot is growing to an estimated $1.25 billion for Wednesday night’s drawing after lottery officials said no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Monday night
Two Powerball tickets worth $200,000 and one worth $50,000 were purchased in New Jersey for Monday night’s lottery drawing. The $200,000 tickets were both sold in Parsippany, Morris County. One was purchased at a Wawa on New Road and the other at the Shell gas station on Route 46 east, lottery officials said.
The Powerball jackpot has reached extraordinary heights, reaching an estimated $1.1 billion ahead of the drawing on Monday night, Dec. 15. The amount is one of the largest jackpots in Powerball history and comes after no one won the top prize over the weekend.
The Powerball jackpot reached an estimated $1.146 billion on Monday night but lottery officials said no ticket matched all six numbers drawn.
Players in the Sunshine State have won 17 Powerball jackpots since the Florida lottery added the game in 2009, according to media reports and Florida Lottery data, with jackpots ranging from $50 million up to a staggering $1.5 billion. Here are the lucky players.
An Arizona lottery player is richer after Monday's Powerball drawing. A Match 5 ticket worth $1 million was sold in Arizona. Here's what we know.
Powerball’s jackpot hits $1.25B, the sixth-largest ever, marking rare back-to-back billion-dollar prizes just before Christmas.
Two Powerball players won a $1 million prize from Monday's drawing, according to Powerball's website: a player from California and a player from Arizona matched all five white balls to win $1 million. The odds of winning $1 million from playing Powerball are 1 in 11,688,054, according to Connecticut Lottery.