No Big Winners in Multi-State Powerball Lottery

You can't win if you don't play, and three lucky winners in Indiana, Virginia, and Washington D.C. picked 5 of the 6 numbers, winning about $1 million each.

Still, there were no tickets sold with all six numbers in last night's Powerball drawing, a multi-state lottery now with an estimated jackpot for Saturday's drawing is expected to grow to $244 million.

One ticket each with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold in Indiana, Virginia and the District of Columbia, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced. They are each worth $1 million.

The numbers drawn were:

10, 11, 23, 28, 31 and the Powerball number was 14.

The estimated jackpot was $222 million.

The drawing was the 13th since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in about 293 million, according to the Powerball website. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.87.

The Powerball game is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.

Did you play? Will you next week?

Photo by Renee Schiavone, Patch Staff