Two players brought home at least $1 million, but there was no winner of the $54 million Powerball jackpot for the drawing held on Wednesday, August 28, 2024.
That means the drawing on Saturday, August 31, 2024 will be worth $69 million with a cash option of $34.3 million.
- The Powerball Numbers (white) for Wednesday, August 28: 5 – 33 – 47 – 50 – 64
- The Red Powerball Power Number: 20
- The Power Play Number: 2X
In this draw, a Georgia player won the second prize worth $1,000,000. A Wisconsin player got $2,000,000 (with Power Play 2X).
In addition, the Powerball lottery awarded 5 third prizes worth $50,000, and 2 tickets that $100,000 prizes, and 2 tickets (California) worth $9,175.
In total, more than 296,500 tickets won cash prizes totaling $4.53 million in Wednesday’s drawing.
These are the prize payouts for all states that play Powerball combined, along with the prize values for each prize tier, with and without the “Power Play” on Wed, Aug 28, 2024:
| Match | Winners | Prize | Power Play Winners | Power Play Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O O O O O | O | 0 | 54,000,000 USD | X | X |
| O O O O O | 1 | 1,000,000 USD | 1 | 2,000,000 USD |
| O O O O | O | 7 | 50,000 USD | 2 | 100,000 USD |
| O O O O | 132 | 100 USD | 47 | 200 USD |
| O O O | O | 356 | 100 USD | 122 | 200 USD |
| O O O | 8,991 | 7 USD | 3,445 | 14 USD |
| O O | O | 7,185 | 7 USD | 2,737 | 14 USD |
| O | O | 58,096 | 4 USD | 21,433 | 8 USD |
| | O | 141,008 | 4 USD | 52,972 | 8 USD |
Powerball is offered in 44 States, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Players select five white numbers from (1 to 69) and one red ball (1 to 26).
To win the Powerball jackpot a player must match all five white balls in any order and the red Powerball number. The odds of picking the correct Powerball grand prize numbers are one in 292,201,338, which doesn’t change even if more players buy tickets when the jackpot is enormous.
You have a better chance of winning the Powerball jackpot if you let the computer select your numbers, according to lottery officials. About 75 percent of winning tickets over the years had numbers picked by a computer.
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The drawings of Powerball still keep rolling, and the Powerball lottery is up to $69 million (Saturday, August 31, 2024). Who will get the lucky’s god favour?
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