New Yorkers Check Your Tickets: Winning Powerball Numbers for Feb. 15, 2017

Even though there was no jackpot winner in Wednesday's drawing, worth an estimated $310 million, five tickets were worth $1 million. The tickets were sold in California, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey and New York.

The winning Powerball numbers for Wednesday, Feb. 15, are: 33, 05, 42, 38, 28, plus the Powerball of 19.

The Powerball jackpot continues to climb.

Last night's jackpot was tiny when compared with the January 2016 record Powerball jackpot, which was worth nearly $1.6 billion. But Americans will still drop by the nearest convenience store with dreams of cash and buy a ticket. The billion-dollar-plus prize won in the Jan. 13, 2016, drawing was the largest lotto jackpot awarded in U.S. history and was split by three winners. In the summer of 2016, a New Hampshire player won a $478 million prize.

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If you still want to take a chance — someone has to win, right? — you have a better chance of hitting the jackpot if you let the computer pick your numbers. The Multi-State Lottery Association, which operates the Powerball game, says about 75 percent of winning tickets are selected when the numbers are chosen by a computer.

Each ticket costs $2. Find out where you can buy your Powerball tickets here. The Powerball game is played by matching all five white balls in any order and the red Powerball number. The odds of picking the correct Powerball grand prize numbers are one in 292,201,338.

By Deb Belt (Patch Staff)