Powerball climbed to $348 million for the Saturday, June 27 drawing, with a $158.3 million cash payout on the line. No one has hit the jackpot in nearly two months.
Fernando Cervantes Jr. of reported the update before the Saturday night drawing at 10:59 p.m. ET. Players in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands were in line for the bigger prize.
May 2 reset
The last jackpot win came on May 2, when two tickets split $20 million. Since then, the prize has kept rising as each drawing passed without a top winner.
That run is what pushed the game into a much larger number by Saturday. Powerball has been running since 1992, and its format stays the same: players pick 6 numbers, including 5 white balls from 1 to 69 and one red Powerball from 1 to 26.
Tickets and the drawing
Tickets cost $2 per play, and a Power Play option costs $1 more. The multiplier can be 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X or 10X, which gives non-jackpot prizes a bigger ceiling without changing the jackpot requirement.
To win the top prize, a ticket must match all 5 white balls in any order and the red Powerball. That makes Saturday night the next cutoff for anyone still holding a ticket, with the drawing set for 10:59 p.m. ET.
For readers tracking the result afterward, Powerball lottery results today were scheduled to follow the drawing, including whether any tickets in Indiana, Missouri or Pennsylvania landed a major prize.
