The odds of winning the big prize were about 1 in 2 million. The seventh-largest Powerball prize was won by two tickets sold in California and Wisconsin.
The lottery website says that the winners will split the prize, or have the option of cash. The winning numbers were 6, 14, 25, 33, 46 and the Powerball was 17. The powerplay multiplier was 2.
One of the winning tickets was sold at 7-Eleven in California.
Fourteen tickets won million-dollar prizes by matching all five white balls, and two of them were winners. The Powerplay tickets were sold in Florida and Georgia.
The $1 million winning tickets were sold in Arizona, California, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, and Texas.
Saturday's drawing will have a $20 million prize.
A lottery player in California won the largest lottery prize in history in October. There have been 39 drawings without a winner.
Better luck next time if you weren't a winner Wednesday night. There are a lot of things that are more likely to happen to you than winning the lottery. Here are a few.
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A pearl is found in an oyster shell.
Have you ever dreamed of shucking oysters and finding a pearl? You have a better chance of finding a pearl than winning millions. Spey, a high-end jewelry company, says there is a 1-in-12,000 chance.
A four-leaf clover is found.
If you search hard enough, you can find a four-leaf clover that will give you some luck in winning. The Director of the University of Delaware Botanical Garden said there's a 1% chance of finding a four-leaf clover. They don't know if they will help with future lottery winnings.
Get struck by lightning.
When someone talks about winning a lottery, they often say that they are more likely to be struck by lightning than win all the money. They're correct. The chance of someone being hit by lightning is 1 in 15,300 if they live until 80.
A hole-in-one.
Good news for golf players. An average player has a better chance of making an ace than a lottery winner. Your odds are set by the National Hole-In-One Registry at 12,000 to 1.
The odds of sinking two holes-in-one in the same round are still better than winning the lottery.
Have conjoined twins.
A woman is more likely to have conjoined twins than win the lottery. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia says conjoined twins make up one in every 50,000 to 60,000 births.
Death by vending machine.
One day you're trying to get a bag of chips from the vending machine and the next thing you know, it's lights out. According to Amram Shapiro, author of "The Book of Odds," people have a 1-in- 112 million chance of being killed in a vending machine-related incident.
An asteroid is hitting the Earth.
The thought of an asteroid hitting the Earth is frightening, but the fact that you're more likely to be killed by an asteroid than win the lottery is terrifying. A person in the United States has a 1-in-75,000 chance of dying in a global impact asteroid strike.
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