No Powerball Winner; Jackpot Grows to Record $425 Million
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William Thomas Cain/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The Powerball jackpot has swelled to $425 million, the largest in the lottery’s history, after no tickets matched the winning numbers in a drawing Saturday night.
The Powerball numbers for Saturday were 22-32-37-44-50, and the Powerball was 34.
Iowa Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer said the jackpot could get even bigger before Wednesday, because sales tend to increase in the run-up to a big drawing.
The previous top windfall was $365 million. The jackpot was claimed by eight co-workers in Lincoln, Neb., in 2006.
While millions of Americans can have fun dreaming about how they’d spend the jackpot, the odds of winning are 1 in 175,000,000, according to lottery officials.
To put that in perspective, a ticket holder is 25 times less likely to win the jackpot then they are to win an Academy Award.
Even still, the old saying holds true: “You’ve got to be in it to win it.”
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