For all Powerball jackpot contestants there is one more attraction to participate, because after no one hit the winning numbers in the last game, the contest reached the Top Ten area for the biggest prizes.
In the draw on Monday, January 3, no ticket matched all six numbers: 2, 13, 32, 33, and 48 the Powerball number was 22.
In the absence of a winner, the jackpot of the draw on Wednesday, January 5, currently rises to an estimate of $575 million, the ninth largest jackpot in Powerball’s history. The jackpot has a cash value of $409.3 millions.
In the previous drawing, more than 1.8 million tickets won lower-tier prizes ranging from $2 to $ 4million. Some of the top-winning tickets included two Match 5 tickets worth $1 million each sold in Connecticut and Texas. A winning Match 5 + Power Play ticket worth $2 million was also sold in Montana .
The Powerball jackpot was last won in California in the drawing for the October 4, 2021 when a single ticket won a grand prize of $ 699. 8 million . That jackpot was ranked the fifth-largest in Powerball history and the seventh-largest in US lottery history. Since then, there have been 33 draws in a row without a prize winner jackpot.
So far, Powerball holds the world record for the largest jackpot set in 2016. The record jackpot of $1,586 million was shared by winners in California, Florida and Tennessee.
Top Ten Powerball prizes
- $1,586 million, 13 January 2016 (California, Florida, Tennessee)
- $768.4 million, 27 March 2019 (Wisconsin)
- $758.7 million, 23 August 2017 (Massachusetts)
- $731.1 million, 20 January 2021 (Maryland)
- $699.8 million, 4 October 2021 (California)
- $687.8 million, 27 October 2018 (Iowa, New York)
- $590.5 million, 18 May 2013 (Florida)
- $587.5 million, 28 November 2012 (Arizona, Missouri)
- $575 million, 5 January 2022
- $564.1 million, 11 February 2015 (North Carolina, Texas)
Remember that Powerball tickets cost $2 per play and are sold at 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands.