Powerball on the Rise Again With $400M Jackpot Wednesday

With no jackpot winners for several drawings, the Powerball jackpot for Wednesday is $400 million. Another enormous Powerball jackpot is up for grabs only a 40 day after it climbed to $448 million at the beginning of August.

A jackpot winner was not pulled during Saturday night's drawing which was an estimated $317 million jackpot. 

This makes Wednesday night's drawing the fourth largest drawing in history and the fifth largest jackpot ever. 

The largest Powerball jackpot, which ballooned to more than a half a billion dollars was drawn on May 18. The $590.5 million jackpot was claimed by Gloria Mackenzie, an 84-year-old Florida resident who took a lump-sum, payout of $370 million.

A winner of Wednesday's jackpot would have the option of choosing annual payments or a lump sum payout of $223.6 million before taxes.

Saturday's winning numbers were 1-17-25-37-44 PB 20.

There were $1 million winners in California, Georgia, Idaho, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Wisconsin.

Powerball is played in 43 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. One ticket cost $2.