{"id":187831,"date":"2025-08-30T19:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/187831\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T19:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:35:11","slug":"1-billion-powerball-jackpot-saturday-night-13th-largest-in-u-s-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/187831\/","title":{"rendered":"$1 billion Powerball jackpot Saturday night, 13th-largest in U.S. history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/4x_USA-POWERBALL.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4x_USA-POWERBALL.jpg\" alt=\"Lottery California winner\" class=\"wp-image-249438\"  \/><\/a>Powerball tickets are seen at a liquor store in Washington, July 19, 2023. (FILE photo REUTERS\/Nathan Howard\/File Photo)<\/p>\n<p>Need a new car? Want to buy your mother a house in the hills? Feel like taking off a year and touring Europe? You might be able to if you feel you\u2019re lucky.<\/p>\n<p>The jackpot for Saturday evening\u2019s Powerball lottery has reached a whopping $1 billion, the 13th-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s drawing will be held at 7:59 p.m., with tickets sold after 7:05 p.m. only eligible for the following drawing, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>To date, there have been 38 drawings since the last time someone had a ticket matching all six numbers in the multi-state game. That includes Wednesday\u2019s drawing, when six tickets were sold with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game.<\/p>\n<p>Those tickets were all sold outside California and were worth either $1 million or $2 million, depending upon whether 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.<\/p>\n<p>In case you bought a ticket and forgot to look, the numbers drawn on Wednesday were 9, 12, 22, 41, 61, and the Powerball number was 25. The estimated jackpot was $861 million.<\/p>\n<p>The largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history was the $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot won by Edwin Castro in November 2022. That ticket was sold at Joe\u2019s Service Center in Altadena.<\/p>\n<p>But in reality, the odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number are 1 in 292.2 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.9.<\/p>\n<p>The Powerball game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013City News Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Powerball tickets are seen at a liquor store in Washington, July 19, 2023. 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