Powerball winners 2016
With Powerball’s jackpot now at $1.5 billion and likely to soar even higher by Wednesday’s drawing, the U.S. multi-state lottery is offering the world’s richest grand prize that could go to a single ticketholder, officials said on Sunday.
The pot pushed higher when no ticket holder had the winning combination of six numbers selected during Saturday’s drawing, when the grand prize reached nearly $950 million.
“It’s crazy how big this jackpot is,” said Alex Traverso, a spokesman for the California Lottery, confirming that the current Powerball prize was record setting. “Buckle up: It’s going to be a crazy ride between now and Wednesday night.”
But even with a flood of new tickets in the contest, nobody has beaten the 1 in 292 million odds of matching all six winning numbers.
The next drawing is set for Saturday at 11 pm ET.
The current jackpot has been growing since Nov. 7, 2015.
Powerball is sold in 44 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Here are the main draw numbers that came up the most in Powerball drawings in the last 15 years, according to Powerball.com records.
#26 (drawn 266 times)
#41 (drawn 255 times)
#22 (drawn 254 times)
#16 (drawn 254 times)
#42 (drawn 253 times)
#35 (drawn 251 times)
#39 (drawn 250 times)
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Just looking at the Powerball itself, here are the most frequent draws:
#20 (drawn 75 times)
#6 drawn 74 times)
#2 (drawn 69 times)
#18 (drawn 68 times)
#9 (drawn 68 times)
#1 (drawn 68 times)
Check out the entire lists in the related links below:
More jackpot-winning Powerball tickets — 16 since 2003 — have been sold there than any other state or U.S. territory participating in the big multi-state lottery game.
Here is the rundown:
• Pennsylvania — 16
• Indiana — 11
• Louisiana — 8
• Florida — 7
• Missouri — 7
• Iowa — 6
• Minnesota — 6
• South Carolina — 6
• Arizona — 5
• Connecticut — 5
• Kentucky — 5
• Wisconsin — 5
• New York — 4
• Oklahoma — 4
• West Virginia — 4
• Delaware — 3
• Georgia — 3
• Kansas — 3
• New Hampshire — 3
• New Jersey — 3
• New Mexico — 3
• North Carolina — 3
• South Dakota — 3
• Rhode Island — 3
