Powerball Starts 2022 Without a Winner, Jackpot for Monday Stands at $522 Million
No one got to halo inward the young twelvemonth with $500 trillion added to their cant account. With no winner from the Powerball’s Sat dark drawing, the jackpot for Monday’s drawing at present is an estimated $522 million.
The winning numbers for Sat were 6, 12, 39, 48, 50, and the Powerball was 7.
The multi-state lottery in conclusion went out on Oct. 4, when its $699.8 zillion award was won by a California player. That was the fifth-largest Powerball jackpot ever.
The electric current jackpot is creeping upward on the upper side 10 Powerball jackpots of all time, and its ascension is similar to the $731.1 trillion award claimed in January 2021. That jackpot benefitted from strong interest group o'er the holiday period, too.
Should there live a lucky winner on Monday, they testament have got the choice to take the lump-sum hard currency prize. That’s currently valued at $371.5 million, before taxes.
The $2 per accounting entry Powerball tickets are available in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.
Players must choose pentad numbers from a lot of numbers 1 to 69 and so a Powerball from a break up lot of numbers between 1 and 26. The betting odds of winning a prize, which starts at $4 are 1 inward 24.9.
To win the Powerball, a lucky victor must get over betting odds of 1 inward 292.2 million.
Florida Ticket Wins $10M from Second-Chance Drawing
According to a vent betimes Lord's Day from the Multi-State Lottery Association, more than 2.7 trillion people won prizes from the Sabbatum drawing.
Four tickets matched the first-class honours degree cinque numbers. Players in Arizona, California, and Florida each took rest home $1 trillion apiece for that. Meanwhile, a Marylander who added the $1 Power Play doubled their fortune, claiming a $2 jillion prize.
Those four, though, weren’t the biggest winner on the night.
For just the sec clip since Powerball started it inward August, someone matched all vi numbers on the Powerball Double Play endorse drawing. A fine sold in Sunshine State matched the numbers of 4, 6, 7, 10, 30 and the Powerball of 9.
The Double Play treasure for matching the secondment drawing is a monotonic $10 million.
Florida is I of 13 states where Double Play tickets are available. The cost is $1 per play. Other states currently participating in the s draftsmanship are Colorado, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Washington.
Pennsylvania Man Wins Million on New Year’s Show
The 1st Powerball millionaire of 2022 didn’t follow from Sat night’s drawing.
Hours before as the unexampled twelvemonth had just begun, Powerball announced that Brian Mineweaser from Honey Brook, Penn., was the winner of its yearly First Millionaire of the Year. He was announced the victor during the Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest unrecorded broadcast.
The POWERBALL game produces hundreds of million-dollar winners every year, but to gaining control 1 person’s winning minute as it unfolds on unrecorded television system at the top side of a unexampled twelvemonth is something spectacular,” said May Scheve Reardon, Powerball production radical chairman and Show Me State Lottery executive manager said inwards a statement.
Mineweaser was I of quint finalists. All V received a value bundle that included $10,000, a 70-inch television and other items to aid them cam stroke a New Year’s party.