An indication for the Powerball jackpot is displayed at a 7-11, Friday, April 5, 2024, in Portland, Ore.
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An indication for the Powerball jackpot is displayed at a 7-11, Friday, April 5, 2024, in Portland, Ore.
Jenny Kane/AP
DES MOINES, Iowa — Powerball drew the numbers early Sunday morning for an estimated $1.3 billion jackpot after a extend of greater than 3 hours. The numbers drawn had been: 22, 27, 44, 52, 69 and the purple Powerball 9. The most recent drawing used to be the forty first because the ultimate time anyone received the jackpot on New 12 months’s Day. That ties a document for consecutive drawings, set two times ahead of in 2022 and 2021. The jackpot, which ranks because the 8th greatest in U.S. lottery historical past, has grown so large for the reason that lengthy odds of one in 292.2 million make successful so tough. That permits the highest prize to roll over 3 times a week for months.
The estimated $1.3 billion prize is for a sole winner who’s paid thru an annuity, with an preliminary cost after which 29 annual bills. Winners nearly at all times select a money payout, which for Saturday night time’s drawing can be an estimated $608.9 million. Saturday night time’s drawing used to be held up and came about simply ahead of 2:30 a.m. ET Sunday to allow some of the organizers to finish required procedures ahead of the scheduled time of 10:59 p.m., Powerball stated in a observation. “Powerball recreation regulations require that each unmarried price tag bought national be checked and verified towards two other pc programs ahead of the successful numbers are drawn,” the observation stated. “That is carried out to make certain that each price tag bought for the Powerball drawing has been accounted for and has an equivalent probability to win. This night, we now have one jurisdiction that wishes additional time to finish that pre-draw procedure.” Powerball is performed in 45 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
