ORLANDO, Fla. – After another night of no big winner, the Powerball jackpot has soared to an estimated $1.7 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The numbers drawn Monday night were 3, 18, 36, 41, 54 and the Powerball of 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The estimated cash value of the current jackpot is $781.3 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Florida winners <\/p>\n
A ticket worth $1 million was sold in Florida. The ticket, which matched five numbers, was sold at Key Food on Sunset Strip in Sunrise, Florida, according to lottery officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two tickets sold in Florida also won $500,000 after matching all five black ball in the Double Play drawing, lottery officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP<\/a><\/p>\n When is the next Powerball drawing? <\/p>\n Powerball<\/a> drawings are held every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n The next Powerball drawing is scheduled for Dec. 24 at 10:59 p.m. \u00a0Watch the drawing live<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why is the Powerball jackpot so high? <\/p>\n The current jackpot has rolled over since September. The last jackpot win was on Sept. 6, when a pair of tickets from Texas and Missouri won the $1.787 billion prize.\u00a0<\/p>\n Wednesday’s jackpot is now the fourth-largest in Powerball history, according to lottery officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Much like the holidays, Powerball is a game that brings people together to dream big and hope for a brighter future,” said Matt Strawn, Powerball Product Group Chair and Iowa Lottery CEO. “We hope this growing jackpot inspires excitement and joy, and most importantly, good will to all.”<\/p>\n SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35’S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS<\/a><\/p>\n How to play Powerball <\/p>\n Powerball tickets cost $2 per play. Tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.\u00a0<\/p>\n The odds of winning a Powerball prize are 1 in 24.9, according to lottery officials. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n Winners can receive their jackpot prize as a lump sum or as an annuity that’s paid in 30 payments over 29 years.<\/p>\n Top 10 Powerball jackpots <\/p>\n 1.\u00a0$2.04 billion\u00a0– Nov. 7, 2022 – California The Source: This story was written with information from the Florida Lottery and Powerball websites.<\/p>\n Florida Lottery News: Powerball, Mega Millions, jackpots, winners<\/a>Money<\/a>Florida News<\/a>Instastories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. – After another night of no big winner, the Powerball jackpot has soared to an estimated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,28,30,29,406,7059,2159,115,405,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-93546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-instastories","13":"tag-lottery","14":"tag-money","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-series","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
2.\u00a0$1.787 billion\u00a0– Sept. 6, 2025 \u2013 Missouri, Texas
3.\u00a0$1.765 billion\u00a0– Oct. 11, 2023 – California
4. $1.70 billion – (current jackpot prize)
5.\u00a0$1.586 billion\u00a0– Jan. 13, 2016 – California, Florida, Tennessee
6.\u00a0$1.326 billion\u00a0– April 6, 2024 – Oregon
7. $1.080 billion\u00a0\u2013 July 19, 2023 – California
8.\u00a0$842.4 million\u00a0– January 1, 2024 – Michigan
9.\u00a0$768.4 million\u00a0– March 27, 2019 \u2013 Wisconsin
10. \u00a0$758.7 million\u00a0– August 23, 2017 – Massachusetts<\/p>\n