Your odds of winning Powerball are getting longer – The Poughkeepsie Journal

No one matched Friday’s winning Mega Millions numbers of 33, 50, 64, 71 and 72 with the Mega Ball of 9, so the jackpot for Tuesday’s drawing has jumped to $96 million. Your odds of winning $4 will improve from 1 in 111 to 1 in 92. “The estimated jackpot will be reset to $40 Million”.

Also at the February 11 drawing, a ticket worth $2 million was purchased at Unity Food Mart on Main Street in Muncy, Lycoming County.

It was sold with the $1 Power Play option, which boosted the prize up to $2 million from $1 million.

Although there hasn’t been a jackpot victor since June 20, there have been millions of non-jackpot prize winners. The winning ticket for Thursday’s $243,000 jackpot was sold at Bazetta Mall in Cortland, near Warren.

In Powerball, players select five numbers between 1 and 59 on one panel and one number between 1 and 35 from a second panel. “It was the surprise of a lifetime for Sara Perez of Shoshone, Idaho on Sunday when she checked her Powerball ticket from the June 3, 2015 drawing”.

Christ said they will probably use their latest $10,000 lottery windfall to pay down some bills and possibly give a bonus to the five part-time guys who work at D&I Beverages. They added “Powerball is now played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the USA Virgin Islands”. The victor would take home $42.6 million before taxes, or a yearly payment of $2.3 million before federal and state taxes are deducted. Tuesday’s drawing will be at 11 p.m., with ticket sales stopping 15 minutes prior to the drawing.

The last time a Powerball jackpot was won in Missouri was November 8, 2014, when a woman from Dallas, Texas, claimed a jackpot prize worth $202.6 with a ticket she bought at Union Station in St. Louis, while on a trip to Missouri.