Powerball Jackpot Grows To $760M For Saturday Drawing: Michigan Odds

MICHIGAN — A lucky Powerball ticket holder in Michigan could start 2024 with an extra $760 million, the jackpot in Saturday night’s drawing, and the sixth-largest prize in the game’s history.

No one matched the winning numbers in Wednesday’s drawing: 4, 11, 38, 51, and 68, with a Powerball of 5. To be eligible for Saturday’s drawing at 10:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, Michigan residents need to buy tickets by 10 p.m.

This is the fourth jackpot worth more than half a billion dollars in 2023. The last time a jackpot-winning ticket was sold was on Oct. 11, when a ticket worth $1.765 billion was sold in California. Since then, there have been 32 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner.

According to lottery officials, the odds of walking away with Saturday's jackpot is about 1 in 292 million.

Although there was no jackpot winner Wednesday, more than a million winning tickets were sold. They included tickets worth $2 million — the players matched all five white balls and doubled their prizes by playing the Power Play multiplier — sold in Colorado, Georgia, and Texas. A ticket sold in California matched all five white balls for a $1 million prize.

Also, the lottery said, eight tickets won $150,000 prizes and 34 won $50,000 prizes.