Nobody wins $1.2B Powerball jackpot; $1.5B up for Saturday
Get ready to join the line again.
Nobody won the Powerball winning numbers Wednesday night. The numbers were 2-11-22-35-60 with a Powerball of 23.
The Saturday prize will rise to an estimated $1.5 billion, making it close to the record $1.586 billion jackpot of 2016. The cash option is estimated at $745.9 million.
There were three $2 million winners on Wednesday for matching the 5 white balls and the Power Play. A dozen tickets, including one in California, won $1 million each for matching all 5 white balls.
Once again, NO ONE hit the massive #jackpot. That means it now rolls to an estimated $1.5 BILLION. We are so thankful to everyone playing and supporting #California schools.#CALottery
— CA Lottery Press (@calotterypress) November 3, 2022
39 drawings, no jackpot win
For 39 consecutive drawings, no entrant has picked the winning numbers in the Powerball lottery.
Daily lines have been a factor of doing business for days at The Lotto Store at Primm, Calif., just feet across the Nevada border. Lottery outlets in Arizona have similar conditions.
Also, it’s common for those heading south on Interstate 15 to buy tickets to bypass the Primm store for locations deeper into California to avoid what would be an hours-long stand-in-line process.
Tweaking the Powerball rules and cost of tickets has resulted in fewer winners, but bigger jackpots. The latest tweak enacted in August was to hold three drawings a week instead of two.
No one has hit all six numbers since Aug. 3, meaning there have now been 38 consecutive draws without a jackpot winner — a testament to how slim the odds are of winning the jackpot: 1 in 292.2 million. The chance of winning any cash prize is about 1 in 25.
Nevada is one of five states that does not offer Mega Millions or Powerball, but the Primm Valley Lotto Store sits just over the border on the California side about 45 miles from Las Vegas off Interstate 15.
Powerball is also played in Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. States that do not have Powerball are Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah.
Contact Marvin Clemons at mclemons@reviewjournal.com. Follow @Marv_in_Vegas on Twitter. The Associated Press contributed to this report.