Has someone won the Powerball jackpot?

It’s not yet known whether a winning ticket was sold for Tuesday’ drawing.

When is the next Powerball drawing?

Drawings are supposed to be held every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. so the next chance will be Wednesday. The drawings are live-streamed on the Powerball website .

How much is a Powerball ticket?

Powerball tickets are $2 each. For $3, players can purchase a ticket with Power Play, which offers the chance to win more money. Before the drawing, a Power Play number by which all the non-jackpot prizes will be multiplied is randomly chosen. The prizes can be multiplied by two, three, four, five or 10. If you win a prize and you bought a Power Play ticket, you’ll get the multiplied prize rather than the regular amount, according to Powerball. Tickets can be purchased in all states except Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah, as well as in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets are generally sold up to one or two hours before the next drawing, Svitko said, but players should check with their local jurisdictions for cutoff times.

What are the odds of winning?

The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. The odds of winning any prize — which range from $4 to the jackpot — are 1 in 24.9, according to Powerball. People have about a 1 in 38 chance of guessing just the Powerball number correctly, which yields a win of $4. The odds for each prize get progressively slimmer as the prizes get bigger .

When was the last time someone won Powerball?

A player in Pennsylvania won a $206.9 million jackpot on Aug. 3 . It was the game’s fifth jackpot to be won this year. The grand prize has been increasing ever since, as draw after draw has yielded no winners. It first reached $1 billion Monday. Nearly 100 people have won lower-tier prizes of $1 million or more during this run, Svitko said.

What is the difference between Powerball and Mega Millions?

Mega Millions and Powerball are the two largest jackpot lottery games in the United States. They both cost $2 for a regular ticket and require players to pick five numbers for the lottery’s white balls and one number for the gold Mega Ball or red Powerball. In each game, players can win smaller prizes if they match lesser combinations of the winning numbers. The Mega Millions jackpot is currently $154 million, with the next drawing at 11 p.m. Tuesday.

What are the largest jackpots ever won?

Powerball has held the world record for biggest jackpot since 2016, when the $1.586 billion prize was shared among multiple winners. The largest Mega Millions jackpot was $1.537 billion, won by a single player in South Carolina in 2018, according to Mega Millions . That game’s jackpot has surpassed $1 billion three times, most recently in July, when a $1.337 billion ticket was sold in Illinois. The current jackpot will be only the second time a winning Powerball jackpot has surpassed $1 billion, according to Powerball .

The Powerball jackpot is a record $1.9 billion. Here’s what to know.

By Justine McDaniel

Updated November 8, 2022 at 10:25 a.m. EST|Published November 3, 2022 at 12:20 p.m. EDT

James Franklin of Baltimore holds the Powerball tickets he purchased at a convenience store Wednesday in Cockeysville, Md. (Julio Cortez/AP)

Numbers were drawn Tuesday morning for Powerball’s $1.9 billion jackpot after a delay of several hours.

The numbers drawn were 56-41-33-47-10, and the Powerball was 10. It was not yet known whether there were any jackpot winners.

The drawing, originally scheduled for Monday night, was delayed for technical reasons, the Michigan Lottery announced on Twitter, because “one participating lottery is still processing its sales and play data.”

Powerball requires all 48 participating lotteries to send in key information before the drawing, the statement said.

“Powerball has stringent security requirements to protect the integrity of the game and remains committed to holding a drawing that gives all players a fair chance to win,” it added.

The record jackpot win is $1.586 billion, set in 2016.

Tuesday’s drawing could be the 41st straight without a winner. The longest previous run was in 2021, when it took 41 drawings before someone clinched a $699.8 million jackpot.

Here’s what to know about the big jackpot.