{"id":176309,"date":"2025-08-26T06:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/176309\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T06:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:27:09","slug":"powerball-estimated-jackpot-jumps-to-815-million-games-7th-biggest-after-no-winners-of-750-million-grand-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/176309\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerball estimated jackpot jumps to $815 million, game&#8217;s 7th biggest, after no winners of $750 million grand prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday night&#8217;s Powerball jackpot will be an estimated $815 million, the seventh biggest in the game&#8217;s history, after no winning tickets were sold for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/powerball-jackpot-winning-numbers-700-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Monday night&#8217;s $750 million grand prize<\/a>, Powerball&#8217;s 10th largest ever when it was up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>The winning numbers drawn Monday night were 16, 19, 34, 37 and 64, with a Powerball of 22.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s jackpot will have an estimated cash value of $367.9 million, Powerball said.<\/p>\n<p>The jackpot could grow as people gobble up tickets as the drawing approaches<\/p>\n<p>A single jackpot winner would have the choice of taking a lump sum payment of the cash value amount (before taxes) or opting for a payout via an annuity, which would consist of one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5% each year.<\/p>\n<p>There hasn&#8217;t been a Powerball jackpot winner since May 31, when a single ticket\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerball.com\/204.5-million-powerball-jackpot-won-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in California<\/a>\u00a0won a $204.5 million jackpot with a cash value of $91.6 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A single ticket sold in Altadena, California, in 2022 claimed a $2.04 billion jackpot, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/powerball-numbers-announced-record-breaking-jackpot-delay\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">largest in both Powerball and lottery history<\/a>. The first Powerball drawing was in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/powerball-drawing-jackpot-lottery-odds-of-winning\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">odds of winning the top prize<\/a>\u00a0are 1 in 292.2 million, according to Powerball.<\/p>\n<p>Drawings take place at 11 p.m. ET every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, and the jackpot increases if there&#8217;s no grand prize winner.<\/p>\n<p>Powerball tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and cost $2 each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/kierra-frazier\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kierra  Frazier<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday night&#8217;s Powerball jackpot will be an estimated $815 million, the seventh biggest in the game&#8217;s history, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":176310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,55355,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-176309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-powerball","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}