$800M Powerball Jackpot is Game’s Second-Largest Prize Ever, Next Drawing Saturday

The Powerball jackpot continues to bilk players.

Wednesday night’s draftsmanship was the 36th time inwards a row that the interstate highway lottery game’s machines turned upwardly fivesome whiteness globe numbers and a reddish Powerball that didn’t fit the numbers on a single ticket. The Powerball jackpot has been rolling over since a $206.9 meg prize was won on August 3.

The jackpot for Powerball’s October 29 drafting is an estimated $800 million, with a cash note value of $383.7 million. Saturday’s prize is forecasted to be Powerball’s second-largest all-time jackpot slow only the $1.586 billion jackpot that the spirited delivered triplet lucky winners inwards January 2016.

At $800 million, Saturday’s Powerball jackpot would live the fifth-largest lottery prize ever so inwards the United States.

Jackpot Hysteria

The Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots more often go up toward the billion-dollar brand because the gameplay of the II popular lottery games was overhauled inward recent years. And those changes only if made winning the jackpot to a greater extent difficult.

In 2015, Powerball rock-bottom the list of blood-red Powerball balls by, ennead but increased the list of whiteness balls by 10. The modify lengthened the odds of hitting the jackpot from single inward 175.2 million to unity inwards 292.2 million.

Mega Millions followed deuce years later by lengthening its jackpot odds from i inward 258.9 billion to ace in 302.5 million. The game’s jackpot chances were extended by increasing the number of Au Mega Balls past 10.

These games, they’re all nigh the jackpots,” Gordon Medenica, and then the theater director of the Maryland Lottery, said inwards 2018.

The gameplay adjustments are why the 10 largest drawing jackpots in US chronicle experience all been localize since 2018. Eight of Powerball’s 10 largest jackpots make also been lot since to a greater extent white balls were added.

Wednesday Winners

Though no more Powerball fine matched all 6 numbers on Midweek night, half dozen tickets matched the Little Phoebe white-hot numbers to win the game’s second-best award of $1 million each. None of those tickets, unfortunately, opted for the $1 add-on Power Play, which would experience doubled their wins to $2 1000000 after the Power Play turned up 2x finally night.

The Power Play identification number ranges from 2x to 5x when the Powerball jackpot is over $150 million. The Power Play number is set prior to the televised Powerball drafting using a random number author with weighted values for from each one multiplier factor option.

The odds favor the 2x Power Play. For for each one draw, at that place are 24 2x values, 13 3x values, triad 4x values, and 2 5x values.

Along with the $1 trillion wins, 48 tickets matched the quatern white balls and the reddish Powerball to win $50K each. Eleven of those winners purchased the Power Play to two-bagger their wins to $100K a piece.

In all, the Oct 26 Powerball drawing was a winner for to a greater extent than 2.1 one thousand thousand tickets that collectively won $21.1 million.

The Powerball jackpot has been smasher only when fin times this year. Millions of people are hoping they come to the game’s 6th bounteousness this weekend.