The Powerball lottery jackpot is up to $1.7 billion for Saturday night’s drawing after no one drew a winning ticket Wednesday.
The winning numbers for Wednesday’s $1.4 billion prize were white balls 3, 16, 29, 61, 69 and red ball 22. Saturday’s draw will be the 42nd since May 31, when a ticket bought in California hit for $204.5 million.
The ongoing 42 streak is the longest in the lottery’s history, Powerball said in a release.
If a player gets lucky and wins Saturday, he or she will choose between an immediate lump sum of $770.3 million or a smaller immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments, each 5% larger than the previous one.
The odds of winning a Powerball jackpot are one in 292.2 million.
At $1.7 billion, the current jackpot is the third-largest in Powerball history and the third-largest in U.S. lottery history, Powerball said. If the jackpot grows again by at least $65 million before Saturday, it will move into the No. 2 position all time, behind only a $2.04 billion jackpot won in 2022 on a ticket bought in California.
Each Powerball ticket costs $2 and can be purchased in 45 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Powerball tickets are not sold in Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah.
