Some key numbers about the giant Powerball drawing

Ahead of Saturday night’s draw, millions of Americans anxiously checked their tickets for the winning combination of six numbers – 32, 16, 19, 57, 34 with a Powerball number of 13.

To win the jackpot, a ticket holder has to match all the numbers on the six balls selected. There’s a 1 in 292.2 million chance of winning the Powerball’s grand prize.

Since November 4, the Powerball jackpot has grown from its 40 million dollar (£27.5 million) starting point as nobody has won the jackpot.

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are astronomically low: officials with the game say each ticket sold has 1 in 293 million chance of being the winning one.

Making it harder to win a jackpot made the ever-larger prizes inevitable.

The US saw sales of US $277 million on Friday alone and more than US $400 million expected yesterday, Grief said. A whopping $5,838,152 in Powerball tickets were purchased Saturday alone, according to the Texas Lottery. In Iowa, some stores were apparently running out of paper to print all the $2 tickets people were buying, and in Virginia, they are expecting to sell more than $21,000 worth of tickets a minute during peak buying times.

The Florida Lottery’s website shows no one matched all 6 numbers in Saturday night’s historic Powerball jackpot drawing.

The Powerball prize rocketed to $950 million on Saturday, fueling a frenzy of lotto ticket buying across the United States.

“I would take a trip to the moon”, he said.

“No Powerball jackpot victor”, the Texas Lottery announced on Twitter hours after the numbers were drawn. The odds of winning are one in 292 million.

A Powerball ticket costs 2 dollars. Officials encourage the victor to sign the back of the ticket immediately and put it in a safe location. The next Powerball drawing is Wednesday. With Powerball sales breaking previous records, the odds are growing t… For some, the lottery has proven a curse, and about 1,900 lottery winners have gone bankrupt within five years after the big win, according to a Review of Economics and Statistics study, Market Watch reported. “I can assure you, there is no office pool for the lottery at the American Statistical Association”, he said.