Powerball winning numbers announced in record-high jackpot Now that the numbers have been drawn, all that's left to do is wait for someone -- if anyone -- to claim the prize of $579 million. At 11:00 p.m. ET, the highly anticipated Powerball results were revealed to be the following: Record Powerball jackpot: What to do if you win CBS News correspondent Anna Werner reports the odds of winning are one in 175 million. Still, that didn't deter Americans from purchasing a shot at the second-largest payout in U.S. history and the highest ever Powerball game. Over 160 million tickets were sold, going at a rate of 130,000 a minute nationwide on Wednesday. At one point, Florida was selling 200,000 tickets per minute. That happened in the Mega Millions drawing in March, when three ticket buyers shared a $656 million jackpot, which remains the largest lottery payout of all time.