A retailer holds a Powerball lottery ticket at a store in Decatur, Georgia, on Friday, May 17. The multistate Powerball jackpot was $590.5 million, with a cash value of $376.9 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association.- NEW: Saturday’s jackpot was a record $590.5 million
- Powerball is played in 43 states and the District of Columbia
- Largest jackpot was $656 million in Mega Millions game in 2012
(CNN) — The winning numbers for the largest multistate Powerball jackpot are: 22, 10,13,14, 52 and the Powerball number is 11.
Saturday’s jackpot was a record $590.5 million. It marks the second largest in Powerball history, surpassing a $587.6 million jackpot split by winners in Arizona and Missouri in November.
The jackpot has a cash value of $376.9 million.
The largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history was $656 million in the Mega Millions game in March 2012. That was split by three tickets sold in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland.
That mark will be dwarfed if no one wins the Powerball jackpot Saturday. With no winner, the jackpot will be about $925 million for Wednesday’s drawing, according to Kelly Cripe, spokeswoman for the Texas Lottery, which is part of the multistate lotteries.
Why you keep playing the lottery
But before you start dreaming of that mansion in Barbados, allow us to pour an icy bucket of mathematical reality over your head: You almost certainly aren’t going to win.
You stand a better chance of walking onto the golf course and hitting two consecutive holes in one than winning that jackpot.
But that didn’t stop hundreds from driving to the Trex Mart in Dearborn, Missouri, store where one of two winning tickets sold in last year’s $587 million Powerball drawing.
About 100 people an hour were buying tickets at the store.
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