The latest Powerball jackpot is worth $495 million with a cash option of $300.2 million. Did anyone win the jackpot prize on Saturday night?
The lottery drawing for Saturday night's Powerball was held at 11 p.m. EST. The selected numbers were 30-34-39-53-67, Powerball 11, and Power Play 2X, according to the Powerball website. Although no one was able to win the jackpot prize, one Powerball player from North Dakota won two million dollars after matching five of the winning numbers and the Power Play, the lottery website states. There were also two winners from New Jersey and Pennsylvania who won one million dollars after matching the five selected numbers.
The next Powerball drawing will be held at 11 p.m. EST on Wednesday night. The jackpot is now worth $550 million with a cash option of $335 million, according to the Powerball website.
The lottery drawings for Powerball are held twice a week on Wednesday and Saturday nights at 11 p.m. EST. Powerball is played across 44 states in the U.S. and is one of the most popular lottery games played across the nation, according to the lottery website.
The last person to claim a Powerball prize was a father from Fremont, Nebraska. Zach Norenberg claimed his one million dollar jackpot prize on March 8 after purchasing a winning ticket for the March 6 Powerball drawing, according to a Powerball press release.
Norenberg told lottery officials he was dropping his daughter off before going to work when he stopped at the Hy-Vee Gas station in Fremont to fill up his truck and buy an energy drink. He said he decided to purchase a few lottery tickets and picked the numbers based on family members birthdays. The jackpot winner told lottery officials he was watching his local news station one night when the winning numbers popped up on screen and decided to check his ticket.
"I called and woke my parents," he told lottery officials. "I said, 'Dad, I just won $1 million.'"
Norenberg and his wife, Shelby, told lottery officials they will pay off their student loan debt, their mortgage, and will use the rest of the winnings to help with their one-year-old daughter and a new baby on the way. The soon-to-be father of two also decided to buy another lottery ticket on March 8 when they were heading to Des Moines, Iowa, for his brother's wedding.
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