Powerball jackpot rises to $1 billion for Saturday's drawing

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The Powerball jackpot roseate to $1 cardinal for Saturday's drafting — the seventh-largest successful the lottery game's history.

This is the 2nd Powerball jackpot to scope $1 cardinal successful 2025 aft nary summons matched each six numbers successful a drafting earlier successful the week. The imaginable victor oregon winners volition get to take betwixt an annuitized prize estimated astatine $1 cardinal oregon a lump sum outgo estimated astatine $461.3 cardinal earlier taxes.

Powerball Jackpot Grows To $1.7 Billion After No One Wins Big Prize

In September, the $1.787 cardinal Powerball jackpot was split between 2 tickets purchased successful Missouri and Texas. Powerball tickets are $2 and are sold successful 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot stay highly low. Powerball accrued its fig of achromatic balls from 59 to 69 successful 2015, and its fig of reddish balls decreased from 35 to 26. The Multi-State Lottery Association said the jackpot likelihood became steeper aft the redesign, shifting from 1 successful 175.2 cardinal to 1 successful 292.2 million.