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Powerball: No winner as jackpot grows to $600 million

By Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
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Powerball: The jackpot was at $559 million as numbers were drawn on Wednesday. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images )

By Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

The Powerball jackpot continued to grow Wednesday as no one picked all five numbers and the red Powerball. Saturday’s grand prize will be worth $600 million, lottery officials said.

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Numbers drawn Wednesday night for a prize worth $559 million were 21-29-54-59-62 and the Powerball was 4. The Power Play was 2X.

Jackpot rises to $600 million

Update 12:05 a.m. EDT March 14: There was no grand prize winner in Wednesday’s drawing, meaning that Saturday’s prize will be worth $600 million.

If someone wins Saturday’s big prize, they will have two options: An annuity, in which the winner receives one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5% each year, or the lump sum option. Choosing the second option will make the cash value amount approximately $293.4 million before taxes, lottery officials said.

There were several second-tier winners.

One ticket in Georgia matched all five numbers and had a Power Play option for $2 million. Solo tickets in New York and Texas also had five numbers but no Power Play, giving the winners $1 million each.

The Powerball jackpot was last won on Jan. 1 by a single ticket in Michigan that matched all five white balls and the red Powerball to win an $842.2 million grand prize. Since then, there have been 30 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner.

Top 10 Powerball jackpots

  • $2.04 billion -- Nov. 7, 2022; California.
  • $1.765 billion -- Oct. 11, 2023; California.
  • $1.586 billion -- Jan. 13, 2016; California, Florida, Tennessee.
  • $1.08 billion -- July 19, 2023; California.
  • $842 million -- Jan. 1, 2024; Michigan.
  • $768.4 million -- Mar. 27, 2019; Wisconsin.
  • $758.7 million -- Aug. 23, 2017; Massachusetts.
  • $754.6 million -- Feb. 6, 2023; Washington.
  • $731.1 million -- Jan. 20, 2021; Maryland.
  • $699.8 million -- Oct. 4, 2021; California.

Original report: The highest jackpot in Powerball history is $2.04 billion, sold to a single winner in California on Nov. 7, 2022.

Drawings are held 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 odds of winning the grand prize are 1 in 292.2 million, according to Powerball.com.

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