Did anyone win tonight's $334M Powerball pot?
As the Powerball jackpot rose to $334 million Saturday, the 12th largest in the multistate lottery's history, officials drew a new set of numbers that promised ticketholders tremendous wealth.
The numbers drawn at 10:59 p.m. ET were 05, 06, 15, 29, 42; Powerball 10; and Power Play 2X. It was not immediately known whether anyone won the jackpot.
No one won Wednesday's $300 million jackpot where the numbers drawn were 12, 36, 38, 54, 61; Powerball 22; and Power Play 2X, setting up the additional $40 million pot for Saturday.
The lump-sum cash prize for Saturday's estimated $334 million jackpot would be around $205 million.
The prize hasn't been this large since March 2013 when a New Jersey man won $338 million. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292 million.
New Powerball rules — mainly enlarging the matrix for drawing the six balls — went into effect in October with the changes intended to produce bigger jackpots.
Individual play tickets cost $2 and are sold in 44 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands. The latest a ticket could have been bought for the Saturday drawing was 10 p.m. ET, and some states stopped sales earlier, according to the lottery's website.
Powerball’s largest jackpot was more than $590 million in May 2013. The game would have to continue a few more rounds without a winner before it could reach that level, Iowa Lottery spokesman Kevin Kirkpatrick said.
Contributing: The Associated Press. Follow Sheldon S. Shafer on Twitter: @sheldonshafer
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