Could there be an early celebration of the New Year?
The penultimate Powerball in 2023 has no jackpot winner Wednesday night, meaning the final drawing in 2023 could net a potential winner of nearly $800 million.
The winning numbers are 4, 11, 38, 51, 68, with the Powerball 5 being red. Power Play option is 3X.
While no one walked away with the estimated $685 million prize, the lucky winner in Texas won $2 million after matching all five white balls and the Power Play.
Another million dollars was up for grabs in California when a player matched all five white numbers.
Saturday’s drawing will have a top prize of about $760 million or a cash value of $382.5 million.
Powerball winners have the option of receiving the jackpot in 30 payment increments over 29 years or all at once.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338.
Wednesday night’s zero-winning ticket continued a streak of 33 drawings without a grand prize winner, dating back to Oct. 11, when someone bought their $1.76 billion life-changing ticket at Frazier Park, Calif.
No winning tickets were sold for Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing worth an estimated $685 million. AFP via Getty Images
The identity of the winner has not been released, nor if they chose the $1.76 billion option or the $774.1 million cash prize.
The latest winners are believed to be locals who “religiously” play the lottery.
“There are people coming in every day to get their tickets, we know them by name and I’m sure someone is going to be yelling up and down,” an employee at Midway Market & Liquors, the store that sold the tickets, told KCAL at the time.
The Powerball jackpot increases to an estimated $760 million for the next drawing on Saturday, Dec. 30. Powerball
There were 5 jackpot winners in 2023, with 3 of them being part of the 10 biggest Powerball jackpots of all time.
The winning tickets were purchased in Washington, Virginia, Ohio and two in California.
Biggest prize $2.04 billion. was won in November 2022 by Edwin Castro.
Castro opted for the more modest cash prize of $997 million, and has since built up his real estate portfolio and car collection.
A Powerball player cashes a previous winning ticket at ABC Liquor in Garden Grove, CA on November 2, 2022. MediaNews Group via Getty Images
Before California state lottery laws forced his name to be released, Castro “disappeared” for several weeks and treated some friends to a vacation in Fiji, The Post reported earlier this month.
The Los Angeles resident, 31, kept his new wealth a secret and “disappeared” from social media.
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