{"id":198696,"date":"2025-09-04T05:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/198696\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T05:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:03:10","slug":"powerball-estimated-jackpot-soars-to-1-7-billion-for-saturday-drawing-after-no-one-won-wednesdays-1-4-billion-grand-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/198696\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerball estimated jackpot soars to $1.7 billion for Saturday drawing after no one won Wednesday&#8217;s $1.4 billion grand prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The estimated Powerball jackpot for Saturday night&#8217;s drawing soared to an estimated $1.7 billion after no tickets came up winners of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/powerball-jackpot-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Wednesday&#8217;s $1.4 grand prize<\/a>. It would have an estimated cash value of 770.3 million. Both numbers are before taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The winning numbers for Wednesday&#8217;s drawing were 3, 16, 29, 61 and 69, with a Powerball of 22.<\/p>\n<p>The jackpot has an estimated cash value of $634.3 million before taxes, Powerball said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were no winning tickets sold for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/powerball-jackpot-climbs-to-1-point-1-billion-monday-drawing-no-winning-tickets-saturday\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Monday night&#8217;s $1.2 billion grand prize<\/a>. There have been six jackpots of more than $1 billion in Powerball&#8217;s 33-year history.<\/p>\n<p>Jackpots rise as more tickets are sold when drawings approach. Wednesday&#8217;s jackpot, which is also the sixth-largest in lottery history, surpasses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/powerball-prize-saturdays-drawing-1-billion-jackpot\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">a $1.326 billion jackpot<\/a> that was won in Oregon in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>No one has won Powerball&#8217;s grand prize since May 31, when a single ticket <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerball.com\/204.5-million-powerball-jackpot-won-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in California<\/a> claimed a $204.5 million jackpot with a cash value of $91.6 million. So far this year, the jackpot has been hit four times.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/powerball-jackpot-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">odds of winning the top prize<\/a> are 1 in 292.2 million, according to Powerball. Drawings take place every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 11 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, a single ticket sold in Altadena, California, claimed a $2.04 billion jackpot, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/powerball-numbers-announced-record-breaking-jackpot-delay\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">largest in both Powerball and lottery history<\/a>. The first Powerball drawing was in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Powerball tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/kierra-frazier\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kierra  Frazier<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Kierra Frazier is a news editor for CBS News &amp; Stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The estimated Powerball jackpot for Saturday night&#8217;s drawing soared to an estimated $1.7 billion after no tickets came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":198697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,6411,55355,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-198696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-lottery","10":"tag-powerball","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115144281551786722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198696","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=198696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}