None of the six Powerball tickets that were drawn last night matched. For the 28th time running on Saturday, there was not a single ticket that matched all six winning numbers in the drawing.

On Saturday, the red Powerball was 21 and the numbers were 1-12-20-33-66. There was a 2x Power Play multiplier. However, if no ticket wins the top prize in the game, the jackpot rolls over to an estimated $785 million for the following Monday night's drawing. The estimated cash value of the one-time option is $367 million.

The Powerball jackpot has only increased to greater sums than the current snowballing prize three times.

The $2.04 billion jackpot that was won on November 7, 2022, by a single ticket purchased in California, was the highest prize ever awarded by Powerball. A $1.586 billion jackpot was split among three tickets that were sold in California, Florida, and Tennessee in January of 2016. Additionally, a player from California struck the $1.08 billion jackpot on July 19 of this summer.

There is only a one in 292.2 million chance of winning the jackpot. There is a one in 24.9 chance of winning a prize overall. You can win the $4 minimum prize by matching the red Powerball.

Plays for Powerball cost $2 each. A little over 68 cents goes toward the cash-sum prize. The annuity option's jackpot, which is advertised, will be paid out over a 30-year period.

A Californian Wins $5.4 Million

More than 1.5 million tickets were won during last night's drawing, according to Powerball officials. Three tickets sold in California, New York, and Florida matched all five white balls for a $1 million prize. A different ticket that was sold in Michigan bought the Power Play to increase the win to $2 million after it matched all five white balls.

Because California pays out Powerball prizes pari-mutuel, the ticket that matched all five white balls was worth $5.4 million. Play for the Powerball jackpot is pari-mutuel and is available in all forty-five states, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. With the exception of California, all other Powerball prizes have fixed amounts.

This is because the Lottery Act in California was limited to games "in which the lottery operator has no stake in the outcome of the game or vested interest in how many winners and losers there are," according to a 1991 ruling by the California Supreme Court. The California State Lottery distributes revenue to all lower-level prize tiers in light of the ruling.

A Powerball explanation stated, "Each prize category receives a certain percentage of the overall prize pool, and then that money is split between all of the winners in each category."

Due to the parimutuel requirement, there are instances when the $1 million prize may actually be less than the fixed win amount in other states—primarily when a Powerball player in California hits the five white balls but not the red Powerball during early Powerball runs.

Medical Staff Get $1 Million

In related lottery news, UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) employs fifteen Pennsylvanian physicians who recently won a $1 million Mega Millions prize. The coworkers, who go by the moniker Million Dollar Medicals, admitted to the Pennsylvania Lottery that they frequently perform together.

They won a $1 million prize in the Mega Millions drawing on July 28. One of the players, Jackie Burdick, claims that the group started off with just a few medical professionals playing together roughly 20 years ago. She said the $1 million prize was the first time they won big.