LANSING, MI - The Powerball jackpot is closing in on $300 million as the estimated jackpot for the drawing on Saturday, Dec. 12 is worth $277 million. The cash option for tonight’s drawing is.
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) – Serious money – a total of $1 billion -- is up for grabs in two Arizona Lottery games, and one of them will be drawn tonight.
Pay $2 per play for each Powerball ticket. Your ticket is your receipt. Once it prints, the play cannot be cancelled or refunded. Know the draw times. Powerball draws take place Wednesdays and Saturdays at 7:59 p.m. Draw entry closes at 7 p.m. On the day of the draw. Remember that Powerball has 9 winning ball combinations. The Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots are on the rise once again, nearing a combined $1.6 billion. According to USA Today, both pools rank among the top six jackpots in history. Each play costs $2. Choose five white balls (1 - 69) and one Powerball (1 - 26) o r select Quick Pick to let the computer randomly select your numbers.; Choose the number of drawings you want to play. For an additional $1 per play, add Power Play to. The Powerball jackpot had grown to $550 million (cash value: $411.4 million) by Sunday morning, the largest potential prize since March 2019. Powerball officials say it could be the 9th largest.
First up is Powerball. The jackpot is now $470 million. There have only been a handful of times the jackpot has rolled that high. The highest it ever went was almost $1.6 billion (with a B) in January 2016. Multiple tickets shared that massive prize. For the current jackpot, you have until 7:59 p.m. Saturday to buy a ticket.
Mega Millions has an even bigger jackpot right now -- $600 million. It’s the fourth-largest jackpot in the game’s history. The biggest prize ever was $1.5 billion (with a B) in October 2018. A single winning ticket was sold in South Carolina.
Are you feeling lucky? 🍀 No #MegaMillions jackpot winner last night, so it’s now up to $600 million... the fourth largest in the game’s history! What would you spend the money on if you WON? Next drawing Tuesday, Jan. 12 #AZFamilypic.twitter.com/HMWBcS4WpX— Maria Hechanova (@MariaHechanova) January 9, 2021
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The next drawing is Tuesday.
While nobody had the winning combination for Friday night’s drawing -- 3, 6, 16, 18, 58, with the 11 Mega Ball– four Arizonans won $10,000 prizes, according to the Arizona Lottery. “That can be a life-saving amount of money for some people,” Arizona Lottery spokesman John Gilliland said Saturday morning.
Congrats to the 4 Arizonans who won $10,000 each playing Mega Millions! Info from @AZLottery Fry’s @ 3255 S. Rural Rd. Tempe - sold 1/6Circle K @ 3140 E. Broadway PHX - sold 1/6Circle K @ 4101 N. Hayden Scottsdale sold 1/8 Circle K @ 801 S. Country Club Mesa sold 1/8— Maria Hechanova (@MariaHechanova) January 9, 2021
Three of those $10K-winning tickets, which matched four numbers plus the Mega Ball, were purchased at Valley Circle K stores. The fourth was sold at a Tempe Fry's.
Thousands of other players won smaller prizes.
$10K – 4$500 – 43$200 – 108$10 – 4,557 (There are to combinations that win $10.)$4 – 15,752$2 – 36,766
According to the Arizona Lottery’s website, you have a roughly 1 in 25 chance of winning a cash prize, anything from $2 up, and a 1 in nearly 303 million (302,575,350) shot at winning the jackpot.
Mega Millions tickets are $2 each.
The odds for Powerball, also $2 per ticket, are 1 in about 25 for any cash prize and 1 in 292,201,338 for the big one.
Since Arizona joined the Powerball game in April 1994, we’ve had 12 jackpot winners. The most recent was April 1, 2017. That jackpot was $60 million.
“The important thing to remember is the money spent when you play one of these games, a lot of that goes to help other causes throughout the state of Arizona,” Gilliland said.
More than $226 million went to Arizona communities during the 2020 fiscal year.
Regardless of which game you play, the Arizona Lottery suggests you sign your ticket as soon as you buy it. That way, nobody else can claim it. Winners have 180 days to claims their prizes. Once a ticket has expired, that’s it. It cannot be redeemed.
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About Powerball Lottery
Powerball is a lottery game that is popular in America (USA). And the draw of this lottery takes place at Tallahassee, Florida. There are six balls in Powerball lottery and each has a number written on it. Five balls are white, and one ball is red. This lotto is being played actively in all states of the US except Nevada, Alabama, Mississippi, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii. History of this lottery is really interesting, It started in 1992 to raise funds for good cause. It is giving a fair chance to anyone can become a millionaire. Nowadays, you can play it by sitting at home because everything is available online. In its early days, the Ticket price was $1 for each play, and powerplay was additional $1 if you want to choose. Later the ticket price has been raised to $2, and power play remains the same. It has numbers from 1 to 69, and you have to choose five numbers to play a game. Power Ball has numbers from 1 to 26, and you have to choose one number. Read more about Powerball