Winning numbers for $1.5B Powerball jackpot to be drawn Wednesday night

If you bought one ticket per second, it would take more than 9 years and 3 months to print all 292 million lottery tickets, not accounting for changing ink and paper in the ticket machine, eating, sleeping and bathroom breaks. Some places have seen lines nearly out the door as people waited hours just to nab as many tickets as they can.

I tried reading an article called “Here’s a guaranteed way to win the Powerball jackpot” by Time, thinking it might be a cheerier article.

Try 1.008 billion on for size, according to 538. After 19 drawings with no jackpot victor, the lottery has reached a whopping $1.5 billion total.

Most players have noble plans for all that money.

The drawing will be held at 10:59 p.m. ET Wednesday.

With the jackpot at an estimated $1.5 billion, PowerBall mania is in full force. The cash value is $930 million, before taxes.

And with strong sales in Iowa and across the country, it is possible that the final jackpot amount could be even higher than this latest estimate heading into the drawing.

Lustig says play your own numbers and play often.

Tickets cost $2 per game and can be purchased until 10 p.m. EST on Wednesday. We’ve got you covered! While no one won the record jackpot Saturday, nationally, 25 tickets won $1 million by matching five numbers, and three tickets won $2 million because they paid extra to multiply smaller prizes.

He made his fortune winning lottery game grand prizes and says there are plenty of opportunities to win big on other lottery games besides Powerball. The largest Powerball prize in history of $590.5 million occurred in May 2013. They simply have to send the numbers they want to play along with between $3 and $4.60. My odds – as are yours – of hitting the jackpot are one in 292.2 million.