A Powerball lottery ticket is printed for a customer Feb. 11, 2015, at a 7-Eleven store in Chicago when the jackpot surged to more than $564 million.(Photo: Scott Olson, Getty Images)
Less than 90 minutes after officials drew Saturday's winning numbers eligible for the Powerball's 12th largest jackpot, they discovered that
no one had won the $340 million prize.
That means Wednesday's pot will be $400 million, officials of the multistate lottery said early Sunday on their website. That would make a winning jackpot the largest since Sept. 18, 2013, when a South Carolina winner matched all the balls to claim a $399.4 million prize, the sixth largest in Powerball history.
The lump-sum cash prize for Wednesday's estimated $400 million jackpot would be $244.8 million.
The jackpot will have jumped $100 million in a seven-day span when the next numbers are drawn at 10:59 p.m. ET Wednesday. Dec. 30's prize was $300 million.
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Saturday's winning numbers were 05, 06, 15, 29, 42; Powerball 10; and Power Play 2X.
New Powerball rules — mainly enlarging the matrix for drawing the six balls — went into effect in October with the changes intended to produce bigger jackpots.
Individual play tickets cost $2 and are sold in 44 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands. The latest a ticket can be bought for Wednesday's game is 10 p.m. ET, and some states stop sales earlier, according to the lottery's website.
Powerball's largest jackpot was more than $590 million in May 2013. The game would have to continue a few more rounds without a winner before it could reach that level, Iowa Lottery spokesman Kevin Kirkpatrick said Saturday.
Contributing: The Associated Press. Follow Sheldon S. Shafer on Twitter: @sheldonshafer
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