Over the past few years, huge lottery jackpots have become more common as lottery officials have changed the rules and ticket prices to increase the top prizes.
WASHINGTON — The Powerball jackpot has grown to $404 million after no one won Wednesday’s $360 million jackpot.
Wednesday’s winning numbers were 4-8-46-47-48, Powerball 5 and Power Play 3. The next drawing will take place on Friday.
Powerball isn’t the only exciting lottery this week. Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot drawing is more than $1 billion and hasn’t seen a winner in more than two months.
Last Powerball Jackpot The victory took place in mid-November. In early November, I bought a one-way ticket in California won a record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot.
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are slim at one in 292.2 million.
Over the past few years, huge lottery jackpots have become more common as lottery officials have changed the rules and ticket prices to increase the top prizes.
2021 saw the biggest changes to the lottery, as Powerball officials added a Monday drawing to the weekly lineup of Wednesday and Saturday night drawings. At the time of announcementPowerball announced that the addition of the Monday drawing will result in “larger and rapidly growing jackpots.”
Powerball is played in 45 states as well as Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
What are the biggest US lottery jackpots ever won?
1. $2.04 billion, Powerball, November 8, 2022 (one ticket, from California)
2. $1.586 billion, Powerball, January 13, 2016 (three tickets from California, Florida and Tennessee)
3. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, October 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)
4. $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)
5. $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, January 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)
6. $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)
7. $758.7 million, Powerball, August 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)
8. $731.1 million, Powerball, January 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)
9. $699.8 million, Powerball, October 4, 2021 (one ticket, from California)
10. $687.8 million, Powerball, October 27, 2018 (two tickets, from Iowa and New York)
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