{"id":17156,"date":"2023-12-26T14:23:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T08:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/powerball-jackpot-rises-to-estimated-685m-for-december-27-drawing\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T14:23:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T08:53:52","slug":"powerball-jackpot-rises-to-estimated-685m-for-december-27-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/powerball-jackpot-rises-to-estimated-685m-for-december-27-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerball jackpot rises to estimated $685M for December 27 drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Powerball jackpot continues to rise<\/u> after no tickets matched all six numbers Monday night to claim the $638 million grand prize.<\/p>\n

The jackpot now sits at an estimated $685 million \u2013 with a one-time cash payout option of $344.7 million \u2013 ahead of Wednesday night’s drawing.<\/p>\n

The winning numbers drawn Monday night were 5, 12, 20, 24 and 29 with a red Powerball number of 4. The Power Play option was 2X. There is a 1 in 292.2 million chance of winning the grand prize, according to the game.<\/p>\n

Three lucky winners<\/u> in California, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania did win $1 million after matching all five white numbers, the game announced Monday night. Two more players in Colorado and Georgia won $2 million with the Power Play option.<\/p>\n

IOWA LOTTERY POSTS WRONG POWERBALL NUMBERS \u2014 BUT MISTAKEN WINNERS CAN KEEP WINNINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Powerball jackpot now sits at an estimated $685 million \u2013 with a one-time cash payout option of $344.7 million \u2013 ahead of the drawing on Wednesday, Dec. 27.<\/span> (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images \/ Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The last time a Powerball player claimed the winning jackpot was in the drawing on Oct. 11 when a Californian snagged the $1.765 billion prize \u2013 the second-largest jackpot ever offered by the game.<\/p>\n

GROUP OF MICHIGAN CO-WORKERS HIT POWERBALL AFTER PLAYING TOGETHER FOR 14 YEARS<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second billion-dollar prize won in 2023 took place on July 19 when another Californian won $1.08 billion,<\/u> the lottery said. That jackpot is the fourth-largest prize ever.<\/p>\n

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The last time a Powerball player claimed the winning jackpot was in the drawing on Oct. 11 when a Californian snagged the $1.765 billion prize.<\/span> (Jay L. Clendenin \/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images \/ Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Powerball tickets are $2 per play and are sold in 45 states,<\/u> Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n

The game says more than half of the proceeds from a ticket sale remain in the jurisdiction where it was sold.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ad_1] The Powerball jackpot continues to rise after no tickets matched all six numbers Monday night to claim the $638 million grand prize. The jackpot now sits at an estimated $685 million \u2013 with a one-time cash payout option of $344.7 million \u2013 ahead of Wednesday night’s drawing. The winning numbers drawn Monday night were …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}