UPDATE: A Powerball jackpot-winning ticket price $1.33 billion was offered in Oregon, however not till Saturday evening’s drawing was delayed greater than three hours on account of “pre-draw procedures.”
A taking part state lottery wanted “extra time to finish required pre-draw procedures, which have been enacted to guard the safety and integrity of the Powerball sport.”
Each ticket offered have to be checked and verified in opposition to two completely different laptop programs earlier than the numbers are drawn, Powerball mentioned.
The drawing befell round 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning as a substitute of the standard 11 p.m.
The profitable numbers have been 22, 27, 44, 52, 69 and the pink Powerball 9.
EARLIER: The Powerball jackpot is at an estimated $1.3 billion forward of Saturday evening’s drawing, tying the file for the longest streak with no jackpot winner.
The Powerball jackpot hasn’t been gained since Jan. 1, when a ticket offered in Michigan produced a $842.4 million jackpot.
Saturday would be the forty first drawing within the present jackpot run. Two different earlier Powerball jackpot runs have reached 41 drawings earlier than producing a grand prize winner, in line with Powerball.
The estimated $1.3 billion jackpot is the fourth-largest jackpot in Powerball historical past and the eighth-largest total when factoring in Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpots.
In the event you win the Powerball jackpot, you may select between an estimated lump-sum, pre-tax cost of $608.9 million or annual payouts of $1.3 billion, additionally pre-tax — beginning with one speedy cost adopted by 29 annual funds that improve by 5% annually.
Now, the dangerous information: the percentages of profitable the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, in line with Powerball.
Powerball tickets are offered in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The subsequent drawing is Saturday at 10:59 p.m. ET.
