After 40 Powerball drawings, will someone win $685M jackpot?

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — After 40 drawings without a large Powerball winner, possibly Monday night’s 41st effort volition beryllium different.

The winning numbers drawn Monday nighttime were 12, 22, 54, 66 and 69. The Powerball was 15.

Thanks to astir 4 months of futility, the Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $685 million, making it the eighth largest successful U.S. lottery history. No 1 has won the game’s expansive prize since June 5.

Every drafting present sets a record, topping the erstwhile people of 36 drawings that ended successful January 2021. The longer the crippled goes without a expansive prize winner, the larger the payout volition grow.

The jackpot drought is by design, arsenic the game’s agelong likelihood of 292.2 cardinal to 1 are intended to make monolithic prizes that gully much players.

Lottery officials are speedy to enactment that adjacent arsenic nary 1 wins the jackpot, plentifulness of radical person won smaller prizes, including 2.8 cardinal players successful Saturday’s drafting alone. Those winnings ranged from $1 cardinal to $4.

The $685 cardinal promoted prize is for a victor who chooses the annuity option, paid implicit 29 years. Nearly each large winners instrumentality the currency option, which for Monday night’s drafting is an estimated $485.5 million. Either prize enactment would besides beryllium taxable to taxes.

Powerball is played successful 45 states positive Washington, D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.