Powerball Jackpot Breaks $100M

METRO DETROIT, MI — Trying to win the Powerball jackpot this Fourth of July holiday weekend probably isn’t high on your list of to-do’s, but it should be. That’s because nobody hit Wednesday’s drawing, meaning Saturday’s jackpot is a whopping $106 million.

With that much money, you can stay on vacation as long as you would like. And the jackpot? Well, you can take it in 30 installments over 29 years, or a one-time lump sum of $67.7 million. Not bad options, eh?

The winning numbers for Wednesday, June 28 were: 29, 37, 46, 53, 68 and a Powerball of 8.

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Each Powerball ticket costs $2. Find out where you can buy your Powerball tickets here. The Powerball game is played by matching all five white balls in any order and the red Powerball number. The odds of picking the correct Powerball grand prize numbers are one in 292,201,338.

A total of 44 states, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, that participate in Powerball. Powerball drawings are held every Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. Eastern time. The record in the game was a $1.6 billion drawing in January 2016.

The record in the game was a $1.6 billion drawing in January 2016, which was won by a group of Tennessee workers. And on Feb. 22, a lucky player in Indiana won the $435 Powerball jackpot, the 10th largest in the game's history.

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