With no weekend winner, Powerball jackpot swells to $1.3B

With no one cracking the game’s jackpot odds of one in 292.2 million, the Powerball’s website now lists Wednesday’s expected top prize at $1.3 billion with an $806 million cash option.

By now, everyone who played surely has checked, but in case you haven’t, the winning digits were 16, 19, 32, 34 and 57 and the Powerball was 13.

CNBC explains if you bought every single possible Powerball combination it would cost a little under $400 million – but says maybe that’s worth it when the jackpot is as high as it is.

Prior to Saturday’s night draw, the biggest prize in lottery history was $656 million, split across three winning tickets back in 2012.

The Powerball lottery jackpot has continued to climb since November 4, reaching an estimated, record-shattering $1.4 billion as of Monday evening.

New Jersey sold $39,9 million in Powerball tickets. between Thursday and Saturday.

To win the jackpot, a ticket must match all six numbers. Despite the long odds, people lined up at stores across the country until the Saturday evening deadline to buy tickets for the lottery game.

The ever-increasing Powerball jackpot has accumulated an astounding $1.4 billion.

“Someone has to win”, he said.

Maureen Rickrode, co-owner of Hanover News Agency on Baltimore Street, saw an uptick in business last week when the Powerball was at a mere $800 million, she said.

The jackpot amount increased because no one matched all six numbers in Saturday’s grand prize drawing. The person won $8 million dollars over 30 years, or $5 million upfront. Elias admitted to buying a ticket for himself, something he said he had never done before.

“All it takes is one ticket to win this prize”.

Manitobans are crossing the USA border to try their luck at winning more than a billion dollars, the world’s largest lottery jackpot. The state’s largest Powerball jackpot victor, Claude G. from Rifle, claimed $90 million in August 2014.

“I think I would go into a state of anxiety, but it would be a good anxiety”, he said, smiling.