Powerball jackpot grows to $643 million after no winners in Monday drawing

The Powerball lottery jackpot — the biggest of the twelvemonth — is swelling aft cipher won successful Monday night's drawing. 

The jackpot is present $643 million, with the adjacent drafting acceptable for Wednesday night. Although nary 1 took location the afloat prize, 2 Powerball players won $1 cardinal each, according to Powerball. 

A azygous Powerball summons costs $2. The rules of the crippled are arsenic follows: Players take 5 numbers from 1 to 69, and 1 fig betwixt 1 and 26, to beryllium their "Powerball." To triumph the jackpot a subordinate indispensable lucifer each six numbers connected their summons to the drawn six-number combination. 

The likelihood of winning the apical prize are 1 successful 292 million, according to Powerball. But these chances don't halt Americans from spending astir $103 cardinal connected lottery tickets annually, according to data from Motley Fool.  

Powerball is played successful 45 states positive Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings are held each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday astatine 11 p.m. Eastern time, with the results broadcast unrecorded from Florida Lottery gully workplace successful Tallahassee, Fla., and streamed connected Powerball.com.

The archetypal Powerball drafting was successful 1992.