Powerball: No winner as jackpot climbs to $645 million

There was no grand prize winner in Saturday night’s Powerball, which sends the jackpot to an estimated $645 million for Monday’s drawing.

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Numbers drawn Saturday night for a prize worth $600 million were 12-23-44-57-61 and the Powerball was 5. The Power Play was 2X.

If someone wins Monday’s big prize, the ticketholder 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 $307.3 million before taxes, lottery officials said.

There were three second-tier winners. Solo tickets in Michigan, New Jersey and South Carolina matched all five white balls and are worth $1 million apiece.

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 32 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner.

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.