Winning numbers announced for estimated $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot

The winning numbers for an estimated $1.5 cardinal Powerball jackpot — the game's fifth-largest prize ever — are 4, 5, 28, 52 and 69 with a Powerball of 20.

Saturday's jackpot has an estimated currency worth of $686.5 million, Powerball said. It's the game's seventh-largest among U.S. lottery jackpots.

It was not instantly known if determination were immoderate winners of Saturday's jackpot. 

"This jackpot is acceptable to present the eventual windfall," said Matt Strawn, Powerball Product Group seat and Iowa Lottery CEO. 

Saturday's drafting is the 45th since the past clip a jackpot was won – the longest specified Powerball run. A $1.787 cardinal jackpot was hit Sept. 6 successful Missouri and Texas. 

There were nary winning tickets sold for Wednesday night's $1.14 billion drawing.

To triumph the expansive prize, a summons indispensable lucifer the 5 achromatic balls pulled during the drafting arsenic good arsenic the reddish Powerball. A azygous jackpot victor would have the choice of taking a lump sum outgo estimated astatine $686.5 cardinal oregon opting for a payout via an annuity, which would dwell of 1 contiguous outgo followed by 29 yearly payments that summation by 5% each year. 

The odds of winning the apical prize are 1 successful 292.2 million, according to Powerball, but lottery jackpots person exploded successful size implicit the past decade. Drawings instrumentality spot each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday astatine 11 p.m. ET. 

In 2022, a azygous summons sold successful Altadena, California, claimed a $2.04 cardinal jackpot, the largest successful some Powerball and lottery history. The archetypal Powerball drafting was successful 1992.

Powerball tickets are sold successful 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and outgo $2 each.

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