There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in Monday evening’s drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing to $1.7 billion, the fourth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
There were nine tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number — two in New York and one each in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game.
The numbers drawn Monday were 3, 18, 36, 41, 54 and the Powerball number was 20. The estimated jackpot was $1.59 billion, the fifth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history
The jackpot was the fourth-largest in the history of the Powerball game, which began in 1992. There has been one larger jackpot for the Mega Millions game, which began in 1996 as The Big Game and was given the new name Mega Millions in 2002.
Monday’s drawing extended the record for consecutive drawings without a ticket with all six numbers sold to 47. 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.
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.