Do you believe in luck? If yes this is for you. Have you ever dreamt of winning a jackpot? If so, turn to ‘ POWERBALL JACKPOT ‘ which makes your dreams come true. This is the biggest jackpot ever. Owned by the Multi State Lottery Association, located in the U.S.A Powerball has been started in 1992. Exactly 31 years ago. So, there’s no doubt about its genuineness and consistency. This is an American Lottery game. Powerball is best known for producing most of the largest Lottery jackpots in history, keeping an unbeatable record of €1.92 billion jackpot. Most people have an enormous dream of winning a lottery, yet few have the fortune to. But it’s a fact of delight to say that during the past year Powerball hit 5 times, 4 out of them topped the billion-dollar mark. So why not try?
HOW IT WORKS?
Powerball is a game played in 45 states. Playing Powerball seems to be exciting. The District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S Virgin Islands includes the 45 states. The minimum bet for Powerball is $1 . You are to select 5 from 69 white balls and 1 from 26 red balls. It’s quite fine that the red ball number be exactly same as one of the white ball numbers. Players are free to select their own numbers. However, there’s another option for selecting numbers. This is , letting the Lottery machine select the numbers for you. It is called a ‘ quick pick ‘ or in some regions as ‘ easy pick’ . It will select random numbers for you.
POWER PLAY
Here you are given the chance of increasing the payout of your winning numbers. That is using the power play option. With an additional $1 you can multiply the lower tier winnings by up to 5. Power play has begun in 2001 , drawn with a special wheel . Power play’s success has led to similar multipliers in other games. On 19th January power play was modified making it 30 balls with the distribution as follows;
2×(15), 3×(9), 4(5) × 3 each
On 4th October 2015 it changed again using 42 or 43 balls as follows: 2×(24), 3×(13), 4×(3), 5×(2) ,10+1
10+1 is only available when the jackpot is under $150 million.
DOUBLE PLAY
Do you believe that you can reuse the Powerball numbers in a second drawing? It sounds amazing and unbelievable yet is so true. Spent another additional $1 with double play to get this valuable chance. But the double play option is only available in 14 states and in Puerto Rico. The same POWERBALL numbers can be reused but with a different prize structure. The double play top prize is $10 million. Just after 30 minutes from the main drawing the DOUBLE PLAY is launched. But the double play option differs from Powerball main drawing as it doesn’t increase its prize whether there’s a winner or not. That is, though it produces a winner or not the prize remains fixed and unchanged.
The least POWERBALL bet is $1 With the POWER PLAY option it’s $3 And if you go with both POWER PLAY and DOUBLE PLAY options it will cost $4 only.
POWERBALL has produced a lot of winners with a Guinness world record of $2.4 billion jackpot.
Top 5 Powerball jackpots ever won.
1. $2.4 billion jackpot on 7th November 2022.
This historical Lottery jackpot was won by a man in California. Edwin Castro by name. Though years passed no one was lucky enough to break the record. He’s the biggest lottery winner ever in history. Only his name was revealed to the public subjected to the public disclosure laws. He really took a year to come forward to claim the prize. It’s reported that he has rejected an invitation to appear in public. It’s a common phenomenon one would like to remain private in this type of situation. Instead he has sent a statement saying that he is ‘ shocked and ecstatic ‘ . It’s a historic win for Castro. The ticket was sold at Joe’s service center Altadena, Los Angeles. California public schools benefit from the Powerball lottery. This $2.4 billion jackpot is actually the largest prize ever won in U.S Lottery history. Castro had chosen the ‘lump sum’ payment. That is to get paid his winnings over 30 annual payments. So his fortune will be $997.6 million before taxes. Joe’s service center was given $1 million bonus cheque for selling the winning ticket.
2. $1.73 billion on 11th October 2023
There have been 35 drawings repeatedly without a big winner until a player in California won the $1.73 billion Powerball jackpot on a Wednesday night. This is recorded as the world’s second largest Lottery prize. It’s only less than the $2.4 billion jackpot won by Castro. The numbers which brought fortune were 22,24,40,52,64, and the Powerball number was 10. The jackpot has grown enormously due to the long dry
spell. $1.73 billion was won by a sole winner who requested the payment through annuity. POWERBALL generates big jackpots with prizes, becoming ever larger as they repeatedly roll over when there’s no Winner.
3. $1.586 billion on 13th June 2016
This time it was won by 3 different parties. The jackpot had rolled over nearly 30 times from 4th November 2015 to 13th January 2016 without a winner. And then it happened. 3 tickets from California, Tennessee and Florida claimed the grand Powerball jackpot. Among them John and Lisa Robinson from Tennessee were the 1st to claim their share of this huge prize. It took 2 days even for them to come forward. At the Tennessee Lottery headquarters on 15th January, they held a press conference and requested privacy from the public. First they took the lump sum of about $327 million and about 10 days later they were to receive the remainder. Naifeh’s food market was the place from where they bought the ticket and the shop received $25000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
The next to claim the prize were Maureen Smith and David Katschmidt. They had bought it from the ‘Publix’ on Melbourne beach. They waited till February 2016 to claim their share of the grand prize.
It took 6 months for Marvin and Mae Acosta of California to claim their Powerball jackpot. It was a share of $528.8 million. The store from where they bought the tickets in Chino hills California has collected $1 million from the state lottery for selling the winning ticket. It’s reported that Marvin and Mae waited for 6 months because they were eager to seek legal and financial assistance to help them handle this grand sold out.
4. $1.08 billion on 19th July 2023
This marks a historical phase. $1.08 billion jackpot has been won on a Wednesday evening for POWERBALL. The lucky numbers were 7,10,11,13 and 24 with the Powerball number 24. This is considered the 6th largest Lottery jackpot in U.S history. Especially this time a single ticket has won the whole jackpot. Though the California Lottery announced on Twitter that the winning ticket was sold at Los Angeles no one ever came forward to claim this grand Powerball jackpot. It was the only ticket in the country that matched all 6 numbers despite all these facts.
5. THE LATEST SOLD AT POWERBALL- $842.4 million on 1st January 2024
with the dawn of the New year 2024 Powerball has produced another lucky winner. The jackpot reached an estimated $842.4 million. It is considered the 5th largest in the game’s history. A ticket sold in Michigan won the Powerball jackpot on 1st of January . The winning numbers were 12,21,42,44 and 49 and the Powerball number was 1. A single ticket from Michigan matched all the six numbers. The cash value of the jackpot is $425.2 million. The winning ticket was sold at The Food Castle Grand Blanc – Michigan. The power play was 3× .
The Powerball drawings are usually held at 10.59 every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
The recent Powerball draw was held on 3rd January 2024. The winning numbers were 30,31,38,48,68 and Powerball number was 10 . The estimated jackpot was $20 million.
- You can buy POWERBALL tickets in person at gas stations, convenience stores, grocery stores and some airport terminals . Some states like Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Virginia gives the opportunity to buy powerball tickets online.
Powerball.com is the official Website where you just enter the date range and your numbers to check your fortune. But in the website only winning numbers are displayed.
If you are eagerly waiting to know the results POWERBALL drawing can be watched live by turning local stations and You tube live or stream it in Powerball website Powerball.
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