Powerball winning numbers (Powerball)
Tonight’s Powerball drawing is for $136 million! The drawing will happen at 10:59 pm Eastern. If you want to watch the drawing live online, please see this story. The winning numbers for Saturday, February 6 are:
4 – 13 – 31 – 36 – 52 and a Powerball of 8
If only one person wins, the “lump sum” will be worth $87.8 million, before taxes. To find out how long until it’s back to $1 billion, please read this story.
No one won the jackpot on Saturday, so the pot is growing. In addition, one person from Florida walked away with $2 million and one person from Texas got the $1 million prize. There were 681,689 winners total, ranging from $4 up to $2 million.
How do you know if your numbers won? If you match all five white balls in any order and match the red Powerball number, then you’ll win the jackpot. But there are additional ways to win. If you matched some of the numbers and are wanting to know if you won, please read the article at this link.
There were three winners for the recent huge $1.5 billion jackpot, from California, Florida, and Tennessee. You can read more about the winners here. Unfortunately, winning does come with its downside. One of the winners is already being sued. So far, only one out of the three winners has come forward so far. How much longer do they have? To find out the deadline for claiming a Powerball prize, please see this story.
The chances of winning are just a little better than 1 in 300 million. And yet three people defied those odds for the $1.5 billion jackpot and walked away winners.
To watch tonight’s drawing, please see the video below:
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