Winning numbers for 2024 – Telemundo Miami (51)

Win the jackpot Arsenal is constantly expanding It will pile up after Saturday night's drawing produced no winners, leaving an estimated $810 million for the new year.

Saturday night's Powerball drawing was the game's sixth-largest drawing, but it came and went for the 34th straight time without a winner.

The last time the jackpot was won was in October and it was the second-largest in the game's history: $1.765 million before taxes.

The next drawing will be held on Monday.

In 2016, Powerball became the first multi-jurisdictional drawing game to exceed $1 billion in jackpot prizes, when three tickets shared a $1.586 million prize.

Last year, the game set the world record for a state lottery jackpot: $2.04 billion. The winning ticket was purchased in California.

This year will end without breaking that record, but the numbers are unlikely to disappoint winners: Saturday night's jackpot was the fourth this year to exceed $700 million.

Of course, these numbers can be misleading, because they are all pre-tax and assume that winners are willing to receive their prizes in annual installments rather than claiming a much smaller initial amount.

Epiphany, also known as Three Kings Day or Theophany, is a Christian holiday celebrated on January 6 and commemorates the visit of the Three Wise Men to Jesus Christ.

In the event of a potential jackpot on Saturday, the initial pre-tax payout was estimated at $383.6 million. As the quantity increased at the beginning of the new year, the initial group was estimated at 408.9 million.

Powerball has produced increasing jackpots and increasing periods on the calendar without a winner, by design. The game was redesigned in 2015 to increase the jackpot.

Earlier this year, organizers added number balls to the drawings, doubled the price of tickets to $2 and funneled more money into the jackpot, cementing the jackpot era, said Victor Matheson, an economics professor at College of the Holy Cross. .

The game began in 1992 with 14 states and the District of Columbia, and now covers almost the entire United States, the professor said.

All of this adds up to greater anticipation and excitement, but the odds are slim: 1 in 292.2 million. The odds of him becoming president are better (assuming everyone in America has an equal chance of winning).

“What that means is that you can have a very difficult lottery to win,” Matheson said.