No winners jackpot emerged for an eighth straight week of Powerball drawings Saturday night, pushing the top prize to $310 million.
The drawing Saturday night produced no jackpot winners.
There was a $2 million Match 5 Power Play winning ticket sold in Puerto Rico, while a $1 million Match 5 ticket was sold in Missouri.
The estimated cash value of the jackpot is $189.3 million.
The last jackpot winners were a couple from Pennsylvania who won the $121.6 million drawing Dec. 17. They chose the cash option and accepted a $72.1 million prize before taxes.
They purchased the ticket in Delaware, where state laws allow lottery winners to remain anonymous.
Last week, a $1 million ticket matching five numbers but not the Powerball was sold in Oakhurst.
The odds of a $2 ticket hitting the jackpot are more than 292 million to 1. The odds of matching five numbers but not the Powerball are 11,688,053 to 1.
Powerball is played in 44 states, Washington, D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The next drawing is Wednesday.
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