Santa Claus did non work a special spark late Saturday night to render someone a $400 Powerball jackpot. So, that way Monday’s grand award in the multi-state drawing is worth at least $416 million.

The hard cash time value for Monday’s draftsmanship testament follow at to the lowest degree $299.5 million.

The winning numbers for Saturday were 27, 29, 45, 55, and 58, with 2 as the Powerball.

It’s the 3rd clip this year, the Powerball jackpot has surpassed $400 million. Saturday’s draftsmanship was the 35th since the large award was last-place claimed. On Oct. 4, the winning numbers matched a just the ticket purchased inwards Calif. for a $699.9 gazillion jackpot – the fifth-highest of all time inwards the game’s history.

On Jan. 20, an undisclosed winner from Maryland won $731.1 million.

Powerball tickets be $2. Lotteries in 45 states, positive the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands sell tickets. The Sunshine State Lottery’s programme studio hosts the draws every Monday, Wednesday, and Sabbatum at 10:59 pm ET.

Deadlines to purchase tickets for drawings motley past lottery. Check with your local participating lottery for more details.

To win, players must pick five numbers between 1 and 69 from ace lot, and a Powerball list from 1 to 26 in a endorse lot. The betting odds of winning the jackpot are 1 inward 292.2 million.

Smaller prizes pop at $4 for matching the Powerball, and lead upwards to $1 billion for matching the foremost 5 numbers. The odds of winning any prize are 1 in 24.9.

Powerball Sales Should Be Strong on Holiday

Sales figures from Saturday’s drawing were not available as of Sunday morning. However, LottoReport.com reported that Wednesday’s drafting for a $378 1000000 jackpot generated $37.3 zillion in sales and $4 one thousand thousand inward PowerPlay tickets.

PowerPlay is a multiplier for holders of tickets winning smaller prizes. While the multiplier can buoy go away to 10-times the smaller prizes, the $1 one thousand thousand prize can buoy only live doubled.

The in conclusion clip a drafting took come in on Christmastide was inwards 2019. That drawing, for a $183 gazillion jackpot, generated $34.6 million inwards sales and $3.2 1000000 inward PowerPlays.

It would non follow surprising to insure Saturday’s sales approach $50 million, fifty-fifty if a list of retail drawing outlets were unsympathetic because of the holiday. Most convenience stores and some hard liquor and drug stores remained unfastened for Christmas.

In addition, some people similar to yield lottery tickets off as holiday gifts. While that’s typically a scratch-off ticket, a vast jackpot mightiness have got enticed some to springiness Powerball tickets instead this year.

Saturdays are Powerball’s strongest sales days. The past times 2 weeks ticket sales get surpassed $40 million as the jackpot grew to to a greater extent than $300 million.

New Double Play Option Available Through 13 Lotteries

In August, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which operates Powerball, began drawings on Mondays inwards an travail to bring about larger and faster-growing jackpots.

At the same time, Powerball also started a new “Double Play” game. In select states, players canful expend an additional $1 per fine to get their numbers eligible for a arcsecond drawing off that same night.

Prizes vary somewhat. Those who mate all pentad numbers and the Powerball acquire $10 zillion instead of the jackpot. However, those who get under one's skin just now the Powerball on the indorse draftsmanship win $7 instead of $4.

State lotteries marketing Double Play are Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Washington.