Tonight's Powerball Prize Is $1.2 Billion — Why Jackpots Are Getting Bigger


Tonight's Powerball Prize Is $1.2 Billion — Why Jackpots Are Getting Bigger

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Tonight's Powerball Prize Is $1.2 Billion — Why Jackpots Are Getting Bigger This is the second time in Powerball's 30-year history that the prize money has hit $1 billion


By Marisa Sullivan Marisa Sullivan Digital News WriterPeople Editorial GuidelinesPublished on November 2, 2022 12:50PM EDT Credit : Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Have you noticed that the


Powerball prize money keeps getting bigger and bigger? There's a reason for that.


After no one claimed the $1 billion jackpot on Monday, the grand total for Wednesday's nights drawing has now gone up to $1.2 billion, which is a take-home of $596.7 million in cash,


according to Powerball's latest press release. This is the second time in Powerball's 30-year history that the prize money has hit $1 billion and the biggest prize up for grabs in six years.


Monday's unclaimed winning numbers were 19, 13, 39, 59 and 36, and the Powerball was 13. The Power Play number, which can multiply non-jackpot winnings, was 3X.


Though nobody came anywhere close to scoring the grand prize money on Halloween night, "there were over 5 million winners in the draw with 10 lucky players winning $1,000,000 each,"


according to a tweet from Powerball.