No Powerball Jackpot Winner, Pot to Grow to $1.3 Billion

The tool pseudo-randomly generates a set of five white balls and one red Powerball for each $2 investment, and it lets you play as many times as you want.

The Powerball jackpot has reached $900 million just hours before Saturday night’s drawing.

Julian Perez fills out a Powerball ticket, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, in Miami. Camelot, the lottery organisers, said that at the height of the ticket fever sales were running at over 400 a second.

Wednesday’s jackpot is expected to rise to $1.3 billion, a world record.

SIOUX CITY | While no one had the winning numbers for the record-breaking Powerball jackpot, a ticket sold in Sioux City won someone $1 million as of Saturday’s drawing. Realistically, you were really, really, really unlikely to win.

Lottery officials say the prize has now swelled to an estimated $1.3 billion – the world’s largest.

“We’ve never experienced a jackpot of this size and our signage wasn’t created to exceed three digits”, said Charlie McIntyre, executive director of the New Hampshire Lottery Commission.

The National Lottery website experienced some problems as an “unprecedented” number of last-minute buyers rushed to buy tickets.

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.

It will now be business as usual for Wednesday’s draw, with a considerably smaller prize of £2.4m up for grabs.

Ticket sales for the multi-state Powerball lottery soared Saturday as people drea…

November 28, 2012: Winner Matthew Good managed to remain anonymous after he learned that he had one of the two winning tickets. The first five can be in any order, but the sixth must be the Powerball number.

Cripe says 75 percent of all combinations have been bought.

There is one way to guarantee you’ll win the Powerball jackpot: buy all of the combinations.

Anndrea Smith, 30, manager of Bucky’s gas station and convenience store in Omaha, told the Associated Press that she sold about $5,000 worth of tickets Saturday – including a few to herself.