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Powerball jackpot grows to $786 million, ninth-largest in game history
Data Researcher/Curator
WASHINGTON —
A $786 million Powerball jackpot is on the line Wednesday night, up $38 million from Monday’s drawing.
The jackpot is now the ninth-largest Powerball jackpot in the game’s history and largest since last year’s $1.8 billion prize won in Arkansas on Christmas Eve.
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Wednesday night’s drawing will be the 40th consecutive drawing since the current jackpot began on May 4. So far this year, there’s been seven jackpot winners, with the last jackpot won on May 2 by two tickets in Florida and Texas.
If a player’s ticket matches all six numbers, they’ll get to decide between taking home the $341.6 million one-time cash payment or splitting the total prize money into 30 payments over 29 years. But the odds of winning are 1 in 292,201,338.
What numbers have been drawn the most for Powerball?
The most drawn numbers for the white balls continue to be 21 and 61, tied for 123 draws as of Aug. 3. Just behind by 121 draws is the number 64.
For the red Powerball, four is the most drawn at 66 times. It was picked in the latest Aug. 3 drawing
Powerball offers eight possible ways of winning a prize. The odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24.9.
Powerball drawings are every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. EDT.
