The Powerball jackpot is up to $1 billion for the drawing on Monday night and one ticket sold in Connecticut for the drawing on Saturday night won $50,000.
The winning numbers for the Saturday drawing were 12-13-33-50-52 and the Powerball was 23.
Powerplay was X3.
The $50,000 winning ticket matched four numbers and the Powerball. It did not have the Powerplay.
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No information was immediately available on where the ticket was sold.
The $1 billion jackpot would be the fifth-highest in Powerball jackpot history and the biggest jackpot this year.
“This is no April Fools’ Day joke, we have an advertised Powerball jackpot that’s closing in on $1 billion to kick off the month of April,” Drew Svitko, Powerball Product Group Chair and Pennsylvania Lottery executive director, said in a statement.
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The overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24.9 and the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
Top 10 Powerball jackpots
- $2.040 billion - Nov. 7, 2022 - California
- $1.765 billion - Oct. 11, 2023 - California
- $1.586 billion - Jan. 13, 2016 - California, Florida, Tennessee
- $1.080 billion - July 19, 2023 - California
- $842.4 million - Jan. 1, 2024 - Michigan
- $768.4 million - Mar. 27, 2019 - Wisconsin
- $758.7 million - Aug. 23, 2017 - Massachusetts
- $754.6 million - Feb. 6, 2023 - Washington
- $731.1 million - Jan. 20, 2021 - Maryland
- $699.8 million - Oct. 4, 2021 - California
