There were no winners in Monday’s Powerball grand prize drawing, sending the jackpot to $559 million heading into Wednesday night.
Numbers drawn Monday night for a prize worth $532 million were 1-3-7-16-66 and the Powerball was 5. The Power Play was 5X.
No winner; jackpot rises to $559 million
Update 12:03 a.m. EDT March 12: There were no winners on Monday night, sending the Powerball jackpot to $559 million for Wednesday night’s drawing.
If someone wins the big prize, they will have two options: An annuity, in which the winner receives one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5% each year, or the lump sum option. Choosing the second option will make the cash value amount approximately $273.3 million before taxes, lottery officials said.
There was one second-tier winner. One ticket holder in Virginia matched all five white balls to win $1 million.
Top 10 Powerball jackpots
- $2.04 billion -- Nov. 7, 2022; California.
- $1.765 billion -- Oct. 11, 2023; California.
- $1.586 billion -- Jan. 13, 2016; California, Florida, Tennessee.
- $1.08 billion -- July 19, 2023; California.
- $842 million -- Jan. 1, 2024; Michigan.
- $768.4 million -- Mar. 27, 2019; Wisconsin.
- $758.7 million -- Aug. 23, 2017; Massachusetts.
- $754.6 million -- Feb. 6, 2023; Washington.
- $731.1 million -- Jan. 20, 2021; Maryland.
- $699.8 million -- Oct. 4, 2021; California.
Original report: The Powerball jackpot was last won on Jan. 1 by a single ticket in Michigan that matched all five white balls and the red Powerball to win an $842.2 million grand prize.
The highest jackpot in Powerball history is $2.04 billion, sold to a single winner in California on Nov. 7, 2022.
Drawings are held every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Tickets, which cost $2 per play, are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The odds of winning the grand prize are 1 in 292.2 million, according to Powerball.com.