Wednesday’s Powerball drawing is the latest chance for lottery players to cash in on a jackpot that has been growing for more than eight weeks.
The twice-weekly drawing is worth at least $310 million with a cash option of $189.3 million. The numbers will be chosen at 10:59 p.m. at Florida Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee.
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It can be watched locally on either WABC-7 in the New York City area or WPVI-6 in the Philadelphia region. NJ.com will publish the winning numbers immediately following the conclusion of the drawing.
The jackpot has rolled over 16 times since an anonymous Pennsylvania couple chose the cash option and won a pre-tax prize of $72,145,291.83 following the Dec. 17 drawing. The $121.6 million ticket was sold in Delaware, one of six states which allows winners to remain anonymous.
There was also a $50,000 ticket sold in Madison. It matched four numbers and the Powerball.
In the last drawing on Wednesday, five tickets matched five numbers but not the Powerball. Four were sold in Puerto Rico and are worth $2 million apiece as the winners spent an extra $1 to exercise the Powerplay option. A ticket bought in Missouri is valued at $1 million.
Only seven drawings last year produced a Powerball jackpot winner. The first — on Jan. 13 — resulted in the holders of three winning tickets splitting a $1,586,400,000 prize, the largest in U.S. lottery history. There was just one winner for the other six drawings.
Saturday’s winning numbers were 37, 64, 17, 9, 5. The Powerball was 2.
A Powerball ticket costs $2. It’s played in 44 states, Washington D.C. Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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