He Powerball This Wednesday, the fourth highest jackpot in the history of this game of chance in the United States was drawn without a winner, so the jackpot increased to the impressive figure of 1,230 million dollars.
The winning numbers were: 11, 38, 41, 62, 65; Powerball 15 and Powerplay 3x.
For the next draw – scheduled for April 6 – if there is a winner, they will be able to choose a cash prize of 595.1 million or choose annual payments for 29 years.
Although no one managed to get this Wednesday’s complete series right – which had a juicy accumulation of 1,090 million– there were nine tickets that won a prize of one million dollars for matching five numbers.
The owners of those tickets purchased them in California (2), Georgia, Massachusetts (2), Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina and Washington (1).
Powerball began in 1992 in 14 states and the District of Columbia and now has almost complete coverage in the United States. It is played in 45 states, as well as Washington DC, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
An interesting fact is that There are only eight states, Florida among them, that do not charge state taxes on lottery winnings, which means they offer the highest payout. In addition to the Sunshine State, California, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming appear on that list.
In 2016, Powerball became the first multi-jurisdictional drawing game to surpass $1 billion in jackpot prizes, when three tickets split a $1.586 million prize.
In 2022 the game held the world record for a government lottery jackpot at reach 2,040 million dollars.
In November of that year, Erdwin Castro, a 30-year-old former mechanic and aspiring architect of Hispanic origin, became the winner of the largest prize ever paid in any lottery in the world.
Castro won $2.04 billion with a ticket he purchased at a Joe’s Service Center gas station in Altadena, a town in Los Angeles, California, with just over 42,000 inhabitants. In that case, the lucky person was left with 997.6 million after choosing to collect the prize only.
Powerball has intentionally produced increasing jackpots and increasing periods on the calendar without a winner, as The game was redesigned in 2015 to increase its jackpot.
The slim chances of hitting the Powerball jackpot, which is one in 292.2 million, are designed to accumulate large sums that attract more players.
Victor Matheson, an economics professor at the College of the Holy Cross, said earlier this year that organizers added number balls to the drawings, doubled the price of tickets to $2 and transferred more money to the grand prize, reinforcing the era of big jackpot.
To participate in the draw – held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays – it is necessary to choose five numbers between 1 and 59, in addition to a sixth number between 1 and 35, which is called Powerball.
You can pay an extra amount – called “Powerplay” – so that if you win, the jackpot is multiplied by two, three, five or ten.
Although the chance of winning the Powerball jackpot is difficult, history shows that it is not impossible.
