Short on cash after buying all those gifts? Someone lucky may find themselves flush with bills soon.
The Powerball jackpot is estimated to be $441 million for Wednesday’s drawing, the final one of 2021.
While Monday’s drawing produced two winning Match 5 and Power Play tickets worth $2 million each in Florida and New Jersey, the Powerball jackpot was last hit in California on Oct. 4. A single ticket won a massive $699.8 million grand prize this past fall. There have been 36 drawings since without a jackpot winner.
The overall odds of winning a prize are one in 24.9. The odds of winning the jackpot with your $2 ticket are one in 292.2 million.
While large, this Powerball drawing does not come close to the record of a $1.586 billion jackpot in 2016.
Here’s all the 2021 Powerball Jackpots:
- Jan. 20 – $731.1 million
- Jan. 23 – $23.2 million
- Jan. 30 – $33.2 million
- Mar. 27 – $235.4 million
- Jun. 5 – $285.6 million
- Oct. 4 – $699.8 million
And here are the top 10 Powerball Jackpots of all-time
- $1.586 Billion – Jan. 13, 2016
- $768.4 Million – Mar. 27, 2019
- $758.7 Million – Aug. 23, 2017
- $731.1 Million – Jan. 20, 2021
- $699.8 Million – Oct. 4, 2021
- $687.8 Million – Oct. 27, 2018
- $590.5 Million – May 18, 2013
- $587.5 Million – Nov. 28, 2012
- $564.1 Million – Feb. 11, 2015
- $559.7 Million – Jan. 6, 2018
