Winning Powerball Numbers For Wednesday, August 9, 2017: $307 Million Jackpot

AUSTIN, TX — You might want to check your numbers after Wednesday's Powerball draw.

Assuming the right numbers were picked, the prize won't be near the $447 million prize a single California player won on June 10. Since the reset after that payout, this week's jackpot is relatively paltry: An estimated $307 million prize with an estimated payout for the cash option of $193.2 million.

Powerball drawings are held every Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. Eastern time. The record in the game was a $1.6 billion drawing in January 2016, which was won by a group of Tennessee workers. And five months ago, on Feb. 22, a lucky player in Indiana won the $435 million Powerball jackpot, the 10th largest in the game's history.

The winning Powerball numbers for Wednesday, August 9, are: 12-30-36-47-62, Powerball: 09.

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.

Tonight's jackpot is small 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; the June 10 win of $447 million was the eighth largest jackpot in the game's history.

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