Powerball Jackpot Surpasses $600 Million Dollars

Lotto fever is heating up once again, no one has matched all the numbers for the Powerball Lotto in weeks. Players will get another chance at the ever-growing prize on Wednesday, Oct. 26. The jackpot currently sits at $625 million with a cash value of $299.8 million. If you remember back to the summer of this year, Lotto fever took over with a $1.377 billion Mega Millions jackpot. Here is a list of the biggest Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots:

$1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016
$1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018
$1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022
$1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021
$768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019
$758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017
$731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021
$699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021
$687.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 27, 2018
$656 million, Mega Millions, March 30, 2012

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Current jackpot: $625 million

Here are the different ways that you can win with Powerball:

Match all 5 white numbers only — $1 million
Match 4 out of 5 white numbers + Powerball — $50,000
Match 4 white numbers only — $100
Match 3 white numbers + Powerball — $100
Match 3 white numbers only — $7
Match 2 white numbers + Powerball — $7
Match 1 white number + Powerball — $4
Powerball only — $4

Last week a winning Powerball ticket was sold in Victoria at the Snax Max at the corner of Red River and Navarro. The winner who will remain anonymous matched 4 out of the 5 numbers and the Powerball for the drawing on October 12th. The total amount of the win was $50,000 however this person added the power play to multiply winnings by 5 (5X) increasing to jackpot win to $250,00.00. The numbers drawn on October 12th were 14, 30, 41, 42, and 59. The red Powerball was 6 and the Power Play was 5X.