NY: Powerball Tickets
Tallahassee, FL (77WABC)- There were no top tier winners in Wednesday night’s $530 million dollar Powerball drawing. According to the Powerball website ,
no one matched the five white Powerball numbers or the five white Powerball numbers with the powerplay.
Wednesday’s winning Numbers are: 17, 38, 20, 9, 40 with a Powerball of 18.
The lottery’s website indicates the estimated top tier jackpot for Saturday night’s drawing is $572 million dollars.
The rising total comes on the heels of a lucky player in Maine who recently won the $1.35 billion mega millions jackpot. That was the second-largest jackpot in the history of the game.
Each play costs $2 or $3 with the Power Play option (originally, Powerball plays cost $1; when Power Play began, such games were $2).
The official cutoff for ticket sales is 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time; some lotteries cut off sales earlier.
Powerball drawings are held on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights at 10:59 pm at the Florida Lottery’s studio in Tallahassee.
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot by matching all numbers with the five white balls and red Powerball drawn are 1 in 292,201,338, according to the lottery.
Powerball is an American lottery game offered by 44 states, along with Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands.
The game is not available in 6 states.
