{"id":138137,"date":"2025-09-06T23:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/138137\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T23:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:23:06","slug":"powerball-drawing-set-for-saturday-with-1-8b-lottery-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/138137\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerball drawing set for Saturday with $1.8B lottery jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) \u2014 A Powerball drawing will be held Saturday for what would be second highest lottery jackpot on record<\/a>: an estimated $1.8 billion. <\/p>\n

The prize ballooned after the lottery held more than 40 consecutive drawings without anyone matching all of the game\u2019s six numbers. Whenever a drawing fails to get a winner, the lottery rolls over the winnings. <\/p>\n

The game\u2019s terrible odds<\/a> of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to generate big jackpots and ever-larger prizes. There are three drawings each week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The largest jackpot on record, $2.04 billion, was drawn in 2022<\/a> and went to a California ticket buyer.<\/p>\n

No one has won the grand prize since May 31. <\/p>\n

The $1.8 billion jackpot is for a winner<\/a> who opts to receive 30 payments over 29 years through an annuity. Winners almost always choose the game\u2019s cash option, which for this drawing would be an estimated $826.4 million.<\/p>\n

Powerball tickets cost $2, and the game is offered in 45 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) \u2014 A Powerball drawing will be held Saturday for what would be second highest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,2356,3505,18319,793,86291,5898,795],"class_list":["post-138137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-california","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-general-domestic-news","tag-general-news","tag-lotteries","tag-puerto-rico","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}