Dec. 28 (UPI) — Powerball will have another shot at adding to its historic year on Saturday with its final drawing of 2023 with the sixth-largest total in the game’s history with a jackpot of $760 million.
No tickets nationwide matched Wednesday’s drawing of white ball numbers 4-11-38-51-68 with the Powerball number 5.
“The Powerball jackpot evaded players Wednesday night and rolled to an estimated $760 million for the next drawing on Saturday night,” Powerball said in a statement. “The jackpot has an estimated cash value of $382.5 million.
“This is the fourth Powerball jackpot to exceed half a billion dollars this calendar year. The Powerball jackpot was previously won on Oct. 11 when a ticket in California won a $1.765 billion grand prize. Since then, there have been 32 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner.”
Grand prize jackpot winners have the option of an annuitized prize worth an estimated $760 million or a lump sum payment estimated at $382.5 million. Both prize options are before taxes.
The country’s other lottery, Mega Millions, which has also produced two jackpot winners of more than $1 billion this year, will have its next drawing on Friday with a jackpot of $92 million with a cash value of $45.9 million.
