There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Saturday’s drawing to $1.5 billion, the eighth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
There were eight tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number. The ones sold in Arizona and Massachusetts are each worth $2 million because the players utilized the Power Play option, where for an additional $1 per play, a ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, is worth $2 million.
The three sold in New York and one each in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Tennessee are each worth $1 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game.
The numbers drawn Wednesday were 25, 33, 53, 62, 66 and the Powerball number was 17. The estimated jackpot was $1.27 billion, the 11th-largest lottery jackpot in American history.
Wednesday’s jackpot was the sixth-largest in the history of the Powerball game which began in 1992. There have been four larger jackpots for the Mega Millions game, which began in 1996 as The Big Game and was given the new name Mega Millions in 2002.
The drawing was the 44th since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold, the longest gap between jackpot wins in the history of the Powerball game,, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association.
A ticket with all six numbers hasn’t been sold since Sept. 6, when one ticket each with all six numbers was sold in Missouri and Texas when the jackpot had reached $1.787 billion, the second-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
This is the second time in Powerball history that the game has generated back-to-back billion-dollar jackpots. The other time was 2023 when a $1.08 billion jackpot was won on July 19, followed by a $1.765 billion jackpot won on Oct. 11.
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in 292.2 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.9.
The Powerball game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.