The Powerball jackpot, which was about $825 million on Saturday but had no winners recorded, was anticipated to increase to about $1 billion by Monday’s drawing, according to officials.
Powerball authorities said early on Sunday that no ticket had all five correct numbers—19, 31, 40, 46, 57, and the Powerball, 23—match.
The jackpot, which has been rolling over since early August with no significant winner, will continue to grow until Monday night’s drawing, when it is anticipated to be approximately $1 billion, according to organizers.
According to the organizers, more $2 tickets for the game have been bought due to the growing jackpot. In a statement released on Saturday, Drew Svitko, group product chair of Powerball, noted that “a Powerball jackpot this enormous has a lot of people thinking big.”
According to organizers, Saturday’s projected $825 jackpot was the biggest Powerball prize so far in 2022. Additionally, it was the second-largest jackpot overall, after the approximately 1.6 billion jackpot that was split by winners in Tennessee, Florida, and California following a drawing on January 13, 2016.
The jackpot from Monday night is now the second-largest, and it is just the second time in the 30 years of the game’s history that the “advertised jackpot” has topped $1 billion, according to Powerball.
The final Powerball prize to be paid was won on August 3 when a ticket in Pennsylvania successfully matched all five white balls and the red Powerball. The price of the ticket was $206.9 million.
