Santa Claus did not pee-pee a special misstep late Sabbatum dark to render someone a $400 Powerball jackpot. So, that substance Monday’s grand appreciate in the multi-state lottery is worth at least $416 million.

The immediate payment time value for Monday’s drafting testament follow at least $299.5 million.

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

It’s the third clip this year, the Powerball jackpot has surpassed $400 million. Saturday’s drawing off was the 35th since the handsome treasure was last claimed. On Oct. 4, the winning numbers matched a fine purchased inward California for a $699.9 million jackpot – the fifth-highest of all time inward the game’s history.

On Jan. 20, an unrevealed victor from Maryland won $731.1 million.

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

Deadlines to purchase tickets for drawings vary past lottery. Check with your local participating drawing for to a greater extent details.

To win, players must break up pentad numbers between 1 and 69 from single lot, and a Powerball identification number from 1 to 26 inward a endorse lot. The betting odds of winning the jackpot are 1 inwards 292.2 million.

Smaller prizes bulge out at $4 for matching the Powerball, and go upwardly to $1 1000000 for matching the for the first time quintet numbers. The odds of winning any award are 1 in 24.9.

Powerball Sales Should Be Strong on Holiday

Sales figures from Saturday’s drawing off were non uncommitted as of Sun morning. However, LottoReport.com reported that Wednesday’s drafting for a $378 trillion jackpot generated $37.3 billion inward sales and $4 1000000 inwards PowerPlay tickets.

PowerPlay is a multiplier factor for holders of tickets winning littler prizes. While the multiplier canful depart to 10-times the littler prizes, the $1 meg award canful only when live doubled.

The finally time a drawing took station on Xmas was inward 2019. That drawing, for a $183 billion jackpot, generated $34.6 billion inwards sales and $3.2 meg in PowerPlays.

It would not follow surprising to escort Saturday’s sales attack $50 million, yet if a identification number of retail lottery outlets were unsympathetic because of the holiday. Most convenience stores and some spirits and drug stores remained unresolved for Christmas.

In addition, some people same to render lottery tickets off as holiday gifts. While that’s typically a scratch-off ticket, a vast jackpot mightiness make enticed some to present Powerball tickets instead this year.

Saturdays are Powerball’s strongest sales days. The yesteryear ii weeks just the ticket sales get surpassed $40 jillion as the jackpot grew to more 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 inward an travail to produce larger and faster-growing jackpots.

At the same time, Powerball also started a unexampled “Double Play” game. In select states, players tin can drop an special $1 per fine to experience their numbers eligible for a 2d drafting that same night.

Prizes variegate somewhat. Those who jibe all v numbers and the Powerball get $10 one thousand thousand instead of the jackpot. However, those who capture simply the Powerball on the sec 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.