WASHINGTON — Powerball’s jackpot will rise again to $629 million after there were no winners of Wednesday’s $593 million jackpot, inching closer to cracking the top 10 of the lottery game’s largest jackpots ever.
One ticket in New Jersey is worth $1 million after matching all five white balls, but not the Powerball.
The grand prize has steadily increased since the last grand prize winners in September, who split the second-largest Powerball jackpot in history earlier this year. On Sept. 6, two tickets sold in Missouri and Texas matched all six numbers to claim a staggering $1.8 billion prize, marking one of the largest lottery wins in U.S. history.
Powerball’s rising jackpot comes after a long winless run for the competing lottery game Mega Millions finally came to an end when a ticket worth nearly a billion dollars was sold in Newnan, Georgia.
Check your tickets to see if you could be a winner:
The winning numbers for Wednesday were 10-31-49-51-68 and Powerball 19. The Power Play multiplier is 2x.
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are one in 292.2 million. The odds of matching all five white balls and winning the $1 million prize are 1 in 11,688,053. The overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24.87.
The Powerball drawing takes place live at 10:59 p.m. ET every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Tickets, which cost $2 per play, are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The top 6 largest Powerball wins have all surpassed $1 billion. Powerball lottery games have potentially huge jackpots because they are played in multiple states.
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