{"id":105015,"date":"2024-04-04T12:08:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/powerball-jackpot-grows-to-1-23-billion-after-no-winner-again\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T12:08:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:08:19","slug":"powerball-jackpot-grows-to-1-23-billion-after-no-winner-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/powerball-jackpot-grows-to-1-23-billion-after-no-winner-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerball jackpot grows to $1.23 billion after no winner again"},"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; Your chance at winning a billion dollars isn&#8217;t over. No ticket matched Wednesday night&#8217;s winning Powerball numbers, and the prize has now ballooned to $1.23 billion for the next drawing.<\/p>\n<p>The winning numbers on Wednesday night &#8212; one of Powerball&#8217;s largest jackpots in the game&#8217;s history &#8212; were: 11, 38, 41, 62, 65 and red Powerball 15. The power play was 3.<\/p>\n<p>The next drawing is on Saturday night. The cash value is $595.1 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>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine McQueen\/Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; Your chance at winning a billion dollars isn&#8217;t over. No ticket matched Wednesday night&#8217;s winning Powerball numbers, and the prize has now ballooned to $1.23 billion for the next drawing. The winning numbers on Wednesday night &#8212; one of Powerball&#8217;s largest jackpots in the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/powerball-jackpot-grows-to-1-23-billion-after-no-winner-again\/\">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\/105015"}],"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=105015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}