Powerball jackpot hits $1 billion after no winning tickets sold

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The data show that “blacks have lower rates of gambling on the lottery than whites, but blacks have a higher average number of days gambled on the lottery than whites. However, in the analysis containing all of the sociodemographic variables, including socioeconomic status and neighborhood disadvantage, black and Hispanic groups are not significantly different from the white reference group in number of days gambled on the lottery.”

No winning tickets were sold for Monday night’s $922 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said, so the grand prize for Wednesday night’s drawing will be an estimated $1 billion. The numbers drawn Tuesday night were 5, 8, 9, 17, 41 and a Powerball of 21.

The cash value for Wednesday night’s pot of gold would be roughly $516.8 million as things stand now.

But jackpots increase if ticket sales surge ahead of drawings so Wednesday night’s jackpot could well top $1 billion.

Monday night’s jackpot increased to an estimated $900 million after nobody won Saturday night and surged again Monday as more people bought tickets.

Wednesday night’s jackpot would be the third-largest in Powerball history and seventh-highest in U.S. Lottery history, trailing only the world record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot won last year and the $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot won in 2016.

With the odds of winning just 1 in 292,201,338, there have been 38 drawings since the Powerball jackpot was last claimed in April.