$439 Million Powerball: Wednesday Draw Winning Numbers

WASHINGTON. The Powerball draw is worth $439 million on Wednesday night after the game continued its losing streak on Monday.

Wednesday’s winning numbers were 6-15-22-42-47 and Powerball 26.

Even though $439 million is a huge amount, it is still over $200 million short of the top 10 lottery jackpots.

The last Powerball jackpot was won in mid-November. In early November, a single ticket purchased in California won a record-breaking $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot.

The stunning top prize jackpots are only for winners who choose the annuity option, which pays out over 29 years. Most players take a smaller lump sum – $237.3 million in the case of Wednesday’s draw (before taxes, of course).

The current jackpot also has uneasy implications after a $1.35 billion Mega Millions ticket was sold in Maine last week. The unidentified winner may remain anonymous. Over a dozen other players matched five numbers and won a $1 million second tier prize.

The chances of winning the Powerball jackpot are slim – one in 292.2 million.

Huge lottery jackpots have become more common over the past few years as lottery officials have changed rules and ticket prices to increase top prizes.

In 2021, the lottery saw its biggest change as Powerball officials added a Monday draw to their weekly Wednesday and Saturday draw lineup. At the time of the announcement, Powerball announced that the addition of the Monday draw would result in “larger and faster growing jackpots”.

Powerball is played in 45 states, as well as Washington DC, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

1. $2.04 billion Powerball November 8, 2022 (one ticket from California)
2. $1.586 billion Powerball January 13, 2016 (three tickets from California, Florida and Tennessee)
3. $1.537 billion Mega Millions October 23, 2018 (single ticket from South Carolina)
4. $1.35 billion Mega Millions January 13, 2023 (one ticket from Maine)
5. $1.337 billion Mega Millions July 29, 2022 (one ticket from Illinois)
6. $1.05 billion Mega Millions January 22, 2021 (one ticket from Michigan)
7. $768.4 million Powerball March 27, 2019 (one ticket from Wisconsin)
8. $758.7M Powerball August 23, 2017 (one ticket from Massachusetts)
9. $731.1 million Powerball January 20, 2021 (one ticket from Maryland)
10. $699.8 million Powerball October 4, 2021 (one ticket from California)