(Trends Wide) — The Powerball jackpot grew to an estimated $1.9 billion after Saturday night’s drawing in which no ticket matched all the numbers, according to the California Lottery Association.
The winning numbers were 28, 45, 53, 56 and 69, and the Powerball ball was 20. The next drawing is scheduled for Monday.
Saturday’s draw, estimated at $1.6 billion, had been the “biggest lottery jackpot ever offered in the world,” Powerball said.
But unfortunately for ticket buyers, the odds of hitting the jackpot remain slim at just 1 in 292.2 million.
Having no winners on Saturday “would tie the record for the number of consecutive drawings without a grand prize winner,” Powerball said. Saturday’s drawing at the Florida Lottery studio in Tallahassee was the 40th Powerball draw since the jackpot was last won Aug. 3 in Pennsylvania.
Saturday’s jackpot, which involved a cash prize of about $782.4 million, “breaks the world record for the largest National Lottery jackpot in Guinness World Records,” the California Lottery tweeted before the numbers fell. .
The “largest jackpot in a national lottery” was recorded by the Powerball in January 2016, when three tickets won a jackpot of US $ 1,586 million.
Powerball tickets cost $2 per spin and are sold in 45 states, Washington, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.