![]() ![]() The steep odds to win the Powerball jackpot means it’s not unusual for no one to win the prize until a larger jackpot attracts a growing number of players. The National Weather Service estimates that people who live for about 80 years have 1 in 12,000 chances of being struck by lightning in their lifetimes. The overall odds of hitting the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292m, which are about the same as flipping a coin and getting the exact same result (heads or tails) 28 times in a row, the Associated Press has previously reported.Ī person’s odds of dating a supermodel, for the sake of comparison, are about 1 in 88,000, according to the author of Life: The Odds, Gregory Baer. ![]() The winning numbers on Monday were 5, 11, 22, 23, 69 and red ball – or Powerball – 7. To win the Powerball jackpot, players must buy $2 tickets and match all five white balls as well as one red ball. That prize was unrelated to a $1.334bn Mega Millions lottery jackpot won in September, which also drew heavy interest from the news media. The winner of November’s record-breaking Powerball jackpot does not appear to have been publicly identified yet. Only four other Powerball jackpots have ever topped $1bn. ![]() It had been 34 drawings and more than 11 weeks since the last Powerball jackpot, when a ticket in Kansas won $92.9m on 19 November.Įight days before that, a Powerball ticket holder in California won the $2.04bn jackpot that was the world’s largest ever lottery prize. Monday’s drawing was the first time in 2023 that anyone has won the jackpot for Powerball, which is played in 45 American states, the nation’s capital, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Many states also tax lottery winnings, but Washington is not one of them. The payout is subject to federal taxes, reducing the payout by more than a third. Historically, winners more often opt for the lump sum, Powerball officials have said. ![]()
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