Last Powerball For 2021 Is Wednesday, $441 Million Jackpot – CBS Miami
MIAMI (CBSMiami/CNN) – Feeling lucky as we close out the year? The last Powerball drawing of 2021 is on Wednesday.
The estimated jackpot is $441 million, the cash value of the big win is $317.5 million.
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While nobody won Monday’s big drawing, two tickets worth $2 million each were sold in Florida and New Jersey, with another $1 million ticket also sold in Florida. Monday’s winning numbers were 36 – 38 – 45 – 62 – 64 and Powerball 19.
It’s been almost three months since someone hit the Powerball jackpot. A single ticket in California raked in a $699.8 million grand prize on October 4. Since then, there have been 36 drawings in a row without a jackpot winner.
While the overall odds of winning a prize are 1 to 24.9, the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, according to Powerball.
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Powerball holds the world record for the largest jackpot. The record $1.586 billion cache was shared in 2016 by winners in California, Florida and Tennessee.
Tickets cost $2, and drawings are each Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
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