Saturday's Powerball jackpot is worth about $495 million
A Powerball ticket sold in Delaware for Wednesday's drawing is worth $50,000, but nobody won the jackpot. That now climbs to an estimated $495 million for Saturday's drawing ($300.2 million cash value).
The jackpot will be the eighth-largest in Powerball history.
Three tickets won $1 million or more Wednesday: Someone in Florida matched five numbers with a Power Play ticket, for $2 million, and two tickets in New York matched five numbers for $1 million.
The winning numbers were 18-36-45-47-69 and Powerball 14. The Power Play was 3X.
The Delaware ticket was sold at the Acme store at Foulk and Naamans Road in Brandywine Hundred, according to officials.
The next Powerball drawing is Saturday at 10:59 p.m.
According to a news release from Powerball, the last jackpot was won in New York the day after Christmas; that's been followed by 22 straight drawings without a jackpot winner.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338. Someone's going to win, of course (but someone's going to be elected president, too, and it's probably not you).
Unclaimed Delaware Lottery prizes
Four big lottery prizes remain unclaimed in Delaware.
They are (drawing date, game, prize amount, the retailer that sold the ticket and the winning numbers):
- Oct. 26: Mega Millions, $10,000 – New Castle Spirits, 738 Ferry Cut Off Road, New Castle – 01-28-61-62-63 Mega Ball 23
- Dec. 18: Mega Millions, $10,000 – Sunoco A-Plus, 1500 Kirkwood Highway, Elsmere – 13-22-32-60-69 and Mega Ball 09
- Dec. 26: Powerball, $50,000 – Royal Farms, 30983 Sussex Highway, near Laurel – 05-25-38-52-67 and Powerball 24
- Feb. 16: Powerball, $50,000 – Laurel Travel Oasis, 30759 Sussex Highway, Laurel – 29-30,-41-48-64 and Powerball 01
Prizes worth more than $5,000 must be claimed at the Delaware Lottery Office in Dover. Winners may remain anonymous.