Powerball Jackpot Jumps Again

Nobody won Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot, meaning Saturday’s jackpot now stands at $275 million. The cash payout is $173.3 million. To put that into perspective, if you did nothing with the cash payout other than stick it into a bank account drawing an unspectacular one percent, you’d earn $1.73 million per year in interest.

The jackpot has been growing since someone took home $60 million months ago. 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 winning Powerball numbers for Saturday, May 24 are 28, 32, 33, 38, 62 and a Powerball of 15.
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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The lottery game is played in 44 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Powerball draws can be seen on hundreds of TV stations nationwide. It may also be available on cable or your mobile device. The draws are also posted on YouTube and on our site. Where to watch the Powerball drawing on TV.

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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