Powerball prize grows to $900 million after no jackpot winner drawn

Another Powerball drafting ended with nary victor Saturday night, sending the jackpot soaring to an estimated $900 million.

No summons for Saturday's drafting matched the winning combination: achromatic balls 2, 9, 43, 55, 57 and reddish Powerball 18. The jackpot was estimated astatine $875 million.

Ticket buyers for Monday's drafting person a accidental astatine either $900 cardinal paid retired successful yearly increments oregon a $465.1 million, one-time lump sum earlier taxes.

The apical prize is the 3rd biggest Powerball jackpot and the seventh largest successful U.S. lottery history, Powerball said successful a connection aboriginal Sunday.

While determination was nary jackpot winner, Powerball said 3 tickets that matched each 5 achromatic balls Saturday are eligible to assertion $1 cardinal prizes, including 2 successful Texas and 1 successful Colorado.

The jackpot volition support increasing until idiosyncratic wins.

The game's abysmal likelihood of 1 successful 292.2 cardinal are designed to physique large prizes that gully much players. The largest Powerball jackpot was $2.04 cardinal successful November.

The past clip idiosyncratic won the Powerball jackpot was April 19 for a apical prize of astir $253 million. Since then, nary 1 has won the expansive prize successful the past 37 consecutive drawings.

Powerball is played successful 45 states, arsenic good arsenic Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.