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It took several additional hours, but the winning numbers for the $1.326 billion Powerball were finally drawn early Sunday morning, and there was a grand prize winner for the first time since January.
At 2:29 a.m. Sunday, Powerball reported that the winning white numbers were 22, 27, 44, 52, 69 and a red Powerball of 9. According to Powerball, the drawing was delayed as one jurisdiction required “additional time to complete the required pre-draw procedures.”
“While a delay to tonight’s Powerball drawing is unfortunate, it means participating lotteries are following the game rules enacted to protect the integrity of the game,” Powerball said in a release. “Every single ticket bought for Saturday’s Powerball drawing will be accounted for before the winning numbers are drawn.”
It was largely worth the wait for a single ticket sold in Oregon though, as it was able to match all six winning numbers to land the $1.326 billion jackpot (with a cash value of $621 million). This jackpot now ranks as the fourth-largest in game history, and the eighth-largest in U.S. draw game history behind a $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot won in Illinois in 2022.
- $2.04 billion (Powerball): Nov. 7, 2022; California
- $1.765 billion (Powerball): Oct. 11, 2023; California
- $1.602 billion (Mega Millions): Aug. 8, 2023; Florida
- $1.586 billion (Powerball): Jan. 13, 2016; California, Florida, Tennessee
- $1.537 billion (Mega Millions): Oct. 23, 2018; South Carolina
- $1.348 billion (Mega Millions): Jan. 13, 2023; Maine
- $1.337 billion (Mega Millions): July 29, 2022; Illinois
- $1.326 billion (Powerball): Apr. 6, 2024; Oregon
- $1.128 billion (Mega Millions): Mar. 26, 2024; New Jersey
- $1.08 billion (Powerball): July 19, 2023; California
This is Oregon’s fourth and largest Powerball jackpot on record. It’s also the state’s first jackpot victory since a ticket landed a $150.4 million prize in 2018. Before this, Oregon’s largest Powerball jackpot was a $340 million prize won in 2005. The jackpot had been growing since New Year’s Day, and was able to outgrow the $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot won by a New Jersey ticket last month.
Outside of the jackpot, there were seven $1 million prizes won by ticketholders in Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Wyoming.
Even if you didn’t win the Powerball jackpot, there are nine total ways in which your ticket could be a winner still.
Powerball is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Your odds of landing the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. The next drawing will be on Monday, April 8. The jackpot will now reset to $20 million.
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