The Other Powerball Numbers You Need to Know

DES MOINES, Iowa- With up to $1.4 billion at stake in Wednesday’s Powerball, questions about the drawing seem to be as abundant as the convenience-store kiosks offering tickets for the record-breaking jackpot.

Past Powerball winning numbers can be found on the Powerball website.

Fresh off scoring his 500th National Hockey League goal, a photo appeared on social media of Ovechkin buying Powerball tickets in Virginia with his father. Saturday’s drawing produced 263,866 winning tickets in Minnesota, totaling $1.8 million in prizes, including one worth $150,000 and 10 worth $50,000. Only a ticket holder who opts to collect the jackpot in annual payments will gets the entire $1.5 billion.

While it’s unclear how many people in each state bought a ticket, Powerball released the number of people in each state who won.

The jackpot continues to grow as more and more players play the odds for the highest lottery prize ever awarded in the USA, the Michigan Lottery reported.

Tickets for Powerball can be purchased at any Massachusetts Lottery retailer and cost $2. If you’re eagerly waiting for the next set of numbers to come out on Wednesday night, below are some other Powerball numbers to keep in mind. That would yield about $80 million for state schools.

The Powerball is now so big the billboards can’t handle it. Some billboards don’t say billion and they only go up to $999 million. New Yorkers will also have to pay county and city taxes.

In fact, the probability of drawing the 292 million different combinations sequentially at random is something like 1 in a gajillion (technical term here).

1/292,200,000: The odds of winning the jackpot in Wednesday night’s drawing. In the entire 2014-15 fiscal year, California sold $372 million in Powerball tickets. He had waited almost a month and half since the winning number was announced. But in return for matching the first five digits, each person will receive a $1 million prize.

Yes, you read that right.