Two Powerball playslips sit on prime of a bit of scratch paper at Bluebird Liquor in Hawthorne, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022.

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Two Powerball playslips sit on prime of a bit of scratch paper at Bluebird Liquor in Hawthorne, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022.

Jae C. Hong/AP

DES MOINES, Iowa — The unhealthy information is that nobody received Wednesday evening’s enormous $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot.

The excellent news is which means the prize has grown even bigger to $1.5 billion forward of the subsequent drawing Saturday evening. That is the third-largest lottery prize in U.S. historical past.

The numbers drawn Wednesday evening have been: 2, 11, 22, 35, 60 and the purple powerball 23.

No one has received the highest Powerball prize since Aug. 3, making for 39 consecutive drawings with out anybody matching all six numbers.

What’s behind three months of lottery futility? It’s simple arithmetic. The odds of successful the jackpot are an abysmal 1 in 292.2 million.

It is due to these lengthy odds that the grand prize has grown so giant.

The new $1.5 billion prize is definitely for winners who go for an annuity, paid out yearly over 29 years. Nearly all winners select money, which for Saturday’s drawing can be $745.9 million.

Powerball is performed in 45 states, in addition to Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.