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Powerball Winning Numbers Wednesday, 04/19/2017
Check your numbers, people. One ticket on Wednesday, April 19 matched 5 numbers, but the Powerball Lottery prize continues to grow.
With no tickets sold with all six numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery the estimated jackpot for Saturday's drawing is expected to grow to $90 million.
One ticket matching five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold in New York and is worth $1 million, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.
The Powerball numbers drawn Wednesday were 1, 19, 37, 40, 52 and the Powerball number was 15.
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The estimated jackpot was $80 million.
The drawing was the fifth since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
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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.
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