No Powerball winner, jackpot rises to estimated $1.3 billion

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[h=4]No Powerball winner, jackpot rises to estimated $1.3 billion[/h]No ticket matched all six Powerball numbers following Saturday night’s drawing for a record jackpot of nearly $950 million.

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A customer shows his tickets for the multi-state Powerball lottery jackpot, the largest in U.S. history, at a convenience store in Madison, Ga., on Jan. 8, 2016.(Photo: EPA)


Lottery fever is here to stay, at least for now.
No winning ticket was drawn in Saturday night's record Powerball jackpot of nearly $950 million, which pushes the giant pot even<span style="color: Red;">*</span>higher —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to an estimated $1.3 billion, according to lottery officials.
The winning numbers were 16-19-32-34-57 and the Powerball number 13.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>All six numbers must be correct to win, although the first five can be in any order. The odds to win the largest lottery prize in U.S. history were one in 292.2 million.
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The next Powerball drawing is Wednesday.
When last week's Powerball drawing also failed to produce a winner, Powerball frenzy went into high gear. And as more and more players daydream about what their riches could<span style="color: Red;">*</span>buy and load up on<span style="color: Red;">*</span>$2 tickets, the jackpot has soared even higher.

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The Powerball jackpot has reached $900 million, the largest lottery prize in the U.S. history, after frenzied buy-ins across the country. VPC


The slim odds<span style="color: Red;">*</span>— around one in 292 million<span style="color: Red;">*</span>— have hardly been a deterrent. And the giant jackpot is just what officials with the Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs the Powerball game, were hoping for when they adjusted the odds last fall. (Previously, it was about one in 175 million.)
The whopping new jackpot started out Nov. 4 at a mere $40 million. Drawing after drawing, there has been no winner<span style="color: Red;">*</span>— and the pot, which has rolled over 18 times,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>has swollen to eye-popping levels. A winner Saturday night would have been a record; the estimated pot for Wednesday's drawing has blown past that.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The previous record<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Powerball of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>$590.5 million was<span style="color: Red;">*</span>won by a single player in Florida in 2013.
The U.S. saw sales of $277 million on Friday alone and more than $400 million were expected Saturday, according to Gary Grief, the executive director of the Texas Lottery, the Associated Press reported.
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Winners of the top prize<span style="color: Red;">*</span>are paid in 30 annual installments or as a one-time, lump sum payment. The lump sum for Wednesday's drawing is estimated at $806 million.
Powerball is played in 44 states as well as the District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Contributing: Associated Press
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