Powerball Jackpot Goes Unclaimed

METRO DETROIT, MI — Nobody won Wednesday’s Powerball Jackpot, meaning Saturday’s grand prize will be $52 million with a cash payout of $32.4 million. That may not seem like a lot in comparison to last week’s whopper of $448.7, which was won on a single ticket by someone in California.

But it would change your life wouldn’t it? After taxes on the cash payout on Saturday’s drawing, a single winner would likely walk away with $18-$20 million. Even it today’s day and age, that’s not chump change.

At any rate, the winning numbers for Wednesday, June 14, were 5, 22, 43, 57, 63 with a Powerball of 24.

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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.

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.

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