WASHINGTON — Powerball’s jackpot rose 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.
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 Saturday were 28-32-36-51-69 with Powerball number 2 and Power Play 2x.
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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