California Lottery ticket
California lottery ticket. Photo by Alexander Nguyen

No tickets were sold with all six numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery, and the estimated jackpot for Saturday’s drawing grew to $82 million.

The winning numbers drawn Wednesday were 22, 23, 36, 47, 63 and the Powerball number was 2. Wednesday’s jackpot was $66 million.

There were also no tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.

The drawing was the sixth since a ticket with all six numbers was sold.

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in about 293 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.87.

The Powerball game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.

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