Powerball: Record Jackpot for Saturday

By SUSAN PETRONI (Patch Staff)

You didn’t hit the jackpot in the the Powerball lottery Wednesday night, but neither did anyone else.

That means Saturday’s jackpot will be an estimated $700 million—the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.

The previous record for the largest lotto jackpot was a Mega Millions prize of $656 million in 2012.

Wednesday night’s $524 million Powerball drawing was the fourth largest Powerball jackpot of all time.

The winning numbers were: 47, 2, 63, 62, 11 and the Powerball number was 17.

Powerball is offered in 44 states as well as Washington D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Tickets are $2.

The odds of winning the grand prize are 1 in 292,201,338.

The next drawing will be at 10:59 p.m. EST on Saturday, Jan. 9.