The Powerball jackpot moved closer to the half-billion mark after there were no winning tickets in Saturday night’s drawing.
The grand prize for the promotion is now at $480 million, lottery officials said.
Numbers in Saturday’s drawing were 32, 37, 40, 58 and 62, with a red Powerball of 15.
The next drawing is Monday, and the estimated lump-sum payout is $242.2 million.
It has been more than two months since someone won a Powerball jackpot, and Saturday night was the 31st consecutive drawing without a winner. The last Powerball jackpot was won on Aug. 3, when a ticket in Pennsylvania was worth $206.9 million, lottery officials said.
That was the fifth time this year that there was a winning Powerball ticket. The others were a $632.6 million winner on Jan. 5, which was split by winners in California and Wisconsin; a $185 million winner on Feb. 14 in Connecticut; a $473.1 million winner on April 27 in Arizona; and a $366.7 million winner on June 29 in Vermont.
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Powerball tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings are held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10:59 p.m. EST.
On Friday night, the Mega Millions jackpot featured a pair of winning tickets -- one in Fort Myers, Florida, and the other in San Jose, California. Originally set at $494 million, the final jackpot reached $502 million. If the winners take the lump sum option, they will split $252 million before taxes.
The overall odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.