The numbers for Wednesday night’s $850 million Powerball jackpot have been drawn
Twenty-nine consecutive Powerball drawings have passed without a jackpot winner.
By Aya Elamroussi, CNN
(CNN) — The winning numbers for Wednesday’s night’s $850 million Powerball jackpot – the fourth largest jackpot prize in the game’s history – have been drawn.
The numbers are 1, 7, 46, 47, 63 and the Powerball is 7, the lottery said.
A jackpot winner Wednesday night would have the option of taking the whole prize in payments over 29 years, or a lump sum of an estimated $397.4 million, both before taxes, the lottery said.
The lottery’s grand prize grew from $785 million when no winner matched all six numbers Monday night. An $850 million jackpot would be the fourth-largest in the game’s history, according to Powerball.
The most recent Powerball jackpot win – $1.08 billion, the third-largest in the game’s history – came on July 19 in California. Since then, 29 consecutive drawings have happened without a grand prize.
The largest Powerball jackpot – $2.04 billion – was won by one ticket in California in November.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, according to the lottery.
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