On Christmas Eve, Santa’s sleigh contains a huge Christmas gift.
A winning ticket was sold in Arkansas for the estimated $1.817 billion Powerball jackpot. It is the second-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history.
The winning numbers in Wednesday night’s drawing were 4, 25, 31, 52, 59, and the Powerball number was 19. The jackpot’s one-time cash value is estimated at $834.9 million.
The game says the Powerball jackpot has been won once on Christmas Eve 2011 and four times on Christmas Day. Powerball began in 1992.
The last Powerball jackpot wins were on September 6 in Missouri and Texas, when the two tickets were split evenly The top prize is $1.787 billion.
Powerball said this is only the second time in the game’s history that consecutive jackpot wins have exceeded $1 billion.
In 2022, a lottery ticket sold in Altadena, California, won a jackpot of $2.04 billion. Powerball and the biggest in lottery history.
Wednesday’s drawing is the 47th in the jackpot’s run, the most in a Powerball jackpot cycle, the game said.
To win the pot of gold, the ticket must match all five white balls and the red Powerball pulled during the drawing. Individual winner of the highest award Can choose Pay as a lump sum or through an annuity, with an immediate payment followed by 29 payments per year in 5% increments. Lump-sum cash estimates and annuity total estimates are pre-tax amounts.
this Odds of winning the jackpot According to Powerball statistics, the ratio is 1 in 292.2 million.
Lottery jackpots are exploding Over the past decade, the odds of winning have become increasingly slim.
Tickets cost $2 each and are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Draws will be held every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 11pm Eastern Time.
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