Lottery avid gamers purchase Powerball tickets on the Las Palmitas Mini Marketplace in within the Model District downtown Los Angeles on Monday, April 1, 2024.
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Lottery avid gamers purchase Powerball tickets on the Las Palmitas Mini Marketplace in within the Model District downtown Los Angeles on Monday, April 1, 2024.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.09 billion after nobody matched the sport’s six numbers Monday evening and gained the highest prize, proceeding a three-month-long winless streak. The numbers drawn had been: 19, 24, 40, 42, 56 and the Powerball 23. Nobody has gained Powerball’s jackpot since New Yr’s Day, a stretch of 39 consecutive drawings with out any person matching the sport’s six numbers. If nobody wins the jackpot Wednesday evening, the sport will fit its file choice of 41 consecutive drawings on Saturday evening.
The cause of the jackpot drought is modest: The percentages of profitable the highest prize are depressing, at 1 in 292.2 million. It is the ones odds that create the huge jackpots which can be designed to draw consideration and power up gross sales. The $1.09 billion prize is for a sole winner who makes the uncommon resolution to be paid over 30 years via an annuity. Just about all winners as an alternative take the money choice, which for Wednesday evening can be an estimated $527.3 million. Powerball is performed in 45 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
