Winning Powerball Lottery Numbers Wed., Jan. 6, 2015

If you’re hoping the next sentence will change your life, you’re not alone.

The winning numbers for Wednesday night’s more than $500 million Powerball jackpot are 2-11-47-62-63 and the Powerball 17.

A statistics professor at Metropolitan State University in Colorado calculates the odds of winning at about 1 in 292.2 million.

If there is a winning ticket, it’ll be the largest payoff in nearly a year: 564.1 million jackpot was won Feb. 11, 2015.

The cash option payout for Wednesday’s drawing is estimated at $306 million.