No one matched Saturday’s Powerball numbers — how much has the jackpot become?
Update: No ticket matched all six numbers, according to Powerball officials, which means the jackpot will grow to at least $410 million for Wednesday’s drawing.
Original story:
Lottery officials will be drawing Powerball numbers Saturday evening for a potential jackpot of $384 million.
UPDATE: Winning number drawn as jackpot rises to $390.2 million.
After federal taxes, that’s worth about $295.4 million, but there’s no guarantee it’ll pay out. SuperLotto also has an $8 million jackpot, according to lottery officials.
Here’s what to do if you have a winning ticket. Any prize $600 and up has to be claimed through a lottery claim form, which should be sent to a nearby lottery district office. There’s one located at 4106 E. Commerce Way in Sacramento. Prizes of lesser amounts can be redeemed at any lottery retailer.
Just this week a big Sacramento-area win was announced by lottery officials. A man bought a scratcher from Rancho Cordova’s JJ Food & Liquor and won $2 million on Wednesday.
But that’s far from the biggest payout possible in the days ahead. California’s Mega Millions jackpot is sitting at a tidy $432 million. A drawing for that pot is coming on Tuesday. Evidently, nobody took home the big prize Friday, during the most recent drawing.
Ticket sales for Powerball end Saturday at 7 p.m., and the drawing will be held at 8 p.m. Sales for SuperLotto end at 7:45 p.m. and the drawing will be held shortly after that time.
To win the Powerball jackpot, you’ll need to get all six winning numbers — the five normal numbers plus the power number. That’s nearly a one in 300 million chance, according to lottery officials. A match of the five winning numbers will still net you a significant, multi-million dollar prize, and that’s only a one in 11.7 million chance.
If nobody wins the Powerball jackpot this time around, another drawing will be held on Wednesday with an even bigger pot.
SuperLotto works in a similar way, only with five normal numbers and a mega number. The odds of buying the jackpot ticket is about one in 41 million.
Good luck, California!
This story was originally published January 2, 2021 at 5:02 PM.