Powerball jackpot grows to colossal $1.10B after Saturdays drawing

The Powerball jackpot skyrocketed to a whopping $1.1 billion after no one claimed the $1 billion prize in Saturday evening’s drawing.The winning numbers for the 10-figure prize were 1, 28, 31, 57, 58, with 16 as the Powerball.The highly anticipated drawing was for the seventh-largest prize in the game’s history, right behind the $1.08 billion jackpot won on July 19, 2023, in downtown Los Angeles.The last Powerball winners were two players in Missouri and Texas, who split the $1.787 billion prize on Sept.6, the second-largest lottery prize ever.Not everybody ended the night empty-handed.Two players from North Carolina and Pennsylvania scored $2 million after matching all five white numbers with the Power Play added to their ticket on Saturday.An additional five lucky people in California, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, and Virginia won $1 million for matching all five white numbers....