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(Reuters) -A Powerball drawing for $800 million, one of many largest jackpots within the historical past of that U.S. lottery sport, discovered no winners on Monday night time, forward of an excellent bigger prize up for grabs within the Mega Hundreds of thousands drawing on Tuesday.
The Multi-State Lottery Affiliation stated nobody purchased the ticket bearing the six profitable numbers from Monday night time’s newest Powerball drawing: 19-7-68-53-11-23.
The subsequent drawing for the lottery will happen on Wednesday, with the estimated jackpot now rising to $865 million. Ought to a winner select to simply accept it in a single lump sum, the prize carries a money worth of about $416 million, lottery officers stated.
Monday’s drawing was the thirty sixth for the reason that final Powerball winner hit the jackpot on New Yr’s Day 2024.
Anybody nonetheless feeling fortunate can have an opportunity on Tuesday to take a $1.1 billion jackpot within the multistate Mega Hundreds of thousands.
The Mega Hundreds of thousands drawing will likely be held at 11 p.m. EDT on Tuesday (0300 GMT on Wednesday). Its jackpot was final received on Dec. 8.
Tickets for each lotteries are offered in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Even at $1.9 billion mixed, the 2 purses at stake on Monday and Tuesday had been nonetheless beneath the most important single lottery prize whole in U.S. historical past. That got here in November 2022 when a lone ticket holder in California received a $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot.
In each lotteries, winner or winners should match the proper six numbers on a $2 ticket.
The percentages of profitable the Powerball jackpot are listed as one in 292.2 million. The percentages of profitable the Mega Hundreds of thousands are listed as one in 302.6 million.