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No Winners in Multi-State Powerball Lottery
The pot grows for Saturday with only one winner matching 5 numbers, without the Powerball number for a $1 million win.
No tickets were sold with all six numbers in Wednesday night's drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery and the estimated jackpot for Saturday's drawing is expected to grow to $151 million.
One Florida winning ticket held five numbers, but missing the Powerball number. It is worth $1 million, the Multi-State Lottery Association announced.
The numbers drawn Wednesday were 10, 16, 38, 43, 63 and the Powerball number was 23. The estimated jackpot was $136 million.
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The drawing was the ninth since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in about 293 million, according to the Powerball website. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.87.
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The Powerball game is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
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