Powerball
The Powerball keeps getting bigger and bigger. The drawing for Wednesday, August 16, 2017, was for $430 million. Did anyone win?
The answer is no. No one won the Powerball tonight.
So now we’re looking at a jackpot of $510 million for Saturday night, with a cash value of $324.2 million.
The winning numbers for tonight were:
Powerball
You can watch them draw the numbers in the video below:
The odds of winning are one in 292.2 million, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. We haven’t had a winner in this one since June 14.
There were some smaller winners this week though. Someone in Texas won $2 million, and five people in California and Florida won $1 million.
How much bigger do you think the Powerball will get this time before there’s a winner? The largest jackpot ever won was $1.6 billion in January 2016.
After that, Powerball’s next largest winners were $590.5 million in May 2013, $587.5 million in November 2012, and $564.1 million for February 11, 2015. So this Powerball is now going to be the fifth largest in Powerball’s history.
Powerball is played in 44 states in the U.S., plus D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. You can buy your ticket for Saturday up until about an hour before the jackpot in most states, although some locations may quit selling tickets earlier than that.
Some people are holding out hope that this jackpot will grow to $1 billion like it did in January. If that happens, you’ll want to pick up your tickets earlier than the day before. Lines got really long in some places when the Powerball was that large.
Some people weren’t too happy about their results and are already talking about it online. Here are just a few examples:
Are you going to be playing the jackpot this Saturday? Let us know in the comments below.