jackpot record, which was a whopping $1.586 billion Powerball prize in 2016. The current estimated prize is far from the U.S. To put that into perspective, those odds are a little worse than flipping a coin and getting heads 28 straight times, University of Nebraska-Omaha mathematics professor Andrew Swift previously told the Associated Press.ДЇor those feeling lucky and wanting to spend $2 for a ticket, the overall odds of winning any prize is a little better at 1 in 24.9. The overall odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are just 1 in 292.2 million. Three winners got lucky in January, followed by March, June and October. The year 2021 brought six Powerball jackpot tickets with winners claiming a combined total of more than $2 billion, officials said. Powerball drawings are held on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday in 45 states, Washington D.C., the U.S. There were also two winning Double Play tickets worth $500,000 each that were sold in Michigan and Puerto Rico. While no one won the grand prize, one person in Georgia matched five balls - which is a $1 million prize, according to lottery officials. The winning numbers for Wednesday nightвЂ™s drawing were 02, 06, 09, 33, 39 and the Powerball 11.

(Photo by Nicolaus Czarnecki/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images) FILE - Powerball tickets at The Hub on Broadway on March 22, 2019, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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