Powerball jackpot hits $1 billion for second time in history. When is the next drawing?
The Powerball jackpot has reached $1 billion, making it the second-largest jackpot in the game’s history.
No one has won the jackpot in the 37 drawings since someone in Pennsylvania won the $206.9 million jackpot on Aug. 3, according to a Powerball news release.
Now players have a chance to score one of the biggest jackpots in Powerball history during the next drawing on Monday, Oct. 31. It’s “only the second time that Powerball’s advertised jackpot has reached $1 billion,” Drew Svitko, Powerball product group chair, said in the release.
The odds of scoring the $1 billion prize are 1 in 292.2 million, the release said.
Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales cutoff times vary from state to state.
Drawings are broadcast on Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:59 p.m. ET. The national lottery game costs $2 to play.
To watch the Powerball drawing, players can stream it online.
Past Powerball jackpot winners
This year, there have been four other Powerball jackpot winners. California and Wisconsin winners split a $632.6 million jackpot win on Jan. 5, while a Connecticut player won the $185.3 million jackpot on Feb. 14.
Then an Arizona winner hit the $473.1 million jackpot on April 27, and a player in Vermont won $366.7 million on June 29.
The largest Powerball jackpot was $1.586 billion and was claimed in 2016 by three winners in California, Florida and Tennessee.
This story was originally published October 31, 2022 at 10:40 AM with the headline "Powerball jackpot hits $1 billion for second time in history. When is the next drawing?."
