{"id":105001,"date":"2024-04-03T18:03:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T18:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/powerball-jackpot-climbs-to-1-09-billion-ahead-of-wednesday-nights-drawing\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T18:03:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T18:03:34","slug":"powerball-jackpot-climbs-to-1-09-billion-ahead-of-wednesday-nights-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/powerball-jackpot-climbs-to-1-09-billion-ahead-of-wednesday-nights-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerball jackpot climbs to $1.09 billion ahead of Wednesday night&#8217;s drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-03\/GettyRF_100223_LotterySign.jpeg\" alt><figcaption>Catherine McQueen\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; The Powerball jackpot in Wednesday night&#8217;s drawing is one of the largest in the game&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>The jackpot is an estimated $1.09 billion &#8212; which would make it the fourth-largest in Powerball history and the ninth-largest lotto jackpot ever when factoring in Mega Millions grand prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night&#8217;s Powerball jackpot has an estimated cash value of $527.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s drawing comes after a Mega Millions player won the eighth-largest jackpot ever last week. A ticket in New Jersey claimed the $1.128 billion Mega Millions prize.<\/p>\n<p>If a player wins, they can choose between a lump-sum, pre-tax payment of $527.3 million or annual payouts of $1.09 billion, also pre-tax &#8212; starting with one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5% each year.<\/p>\n<p>The Powerball jackpot crossed the billion-dollar threshold last week. There have been 39 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner. The last winner was on Jan. 1, when a ticket in Michigan won $842.4 million, according to the lottery.<\/p>\n<p>The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, according to Powerball.<\/p>\n<p>Powerball tickets are $2 per play. Tickets are sold in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p>The drawing will be held Wednesday at 10:59 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine McQueen\/Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; The Powerball jackpot in Wednesday night&#8217;s drawing is one of the largest in the game&#8217;s history. The jackpot is an estimated $1.09 billion &#8212; which would make it the fourth-largest in Powerball history and the ninth-largest lotto jackpot ever when factoring in Mega Millions<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/powerball-jackpot-climbs-to-1-09-billion-ahead-of-wednesday-nights-drawing\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}