Business Powerball Winning Numbers For 1/16/2019 Drawing: $112M Jackpot Here are the winning Powerball numbers for the drawing on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. Reply Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot has hit triple digits and is worth an estimated $112 million. The one-time cash payout for the Jan. 16 Powerball drawing will be an estimated $68 million to the player who correctly chooses all of the lottery numbers. What time are the winning Powerball numbers drawn? Numbers are selected every Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. Eastern time, with Powerball results typically posted within five minutes. In most states, ticket sales stop at least an hour before the drawing, but a state may cut off sales earlier, such as Illinois, which ends sales three hours before the drawing. In Maryland and New Jersey, ticket sales end at 9:59 p.m.; in Virginia, they close at 10 p.m. Check with your state lottery for the sales cut-off time. The winning Powerball numbers for Wednesday, Jan. 16, are: 14, 29, 31, 56, 61 and the Powerball of 01. The largest Powerball jackpot in history was $1.586 billion, which was shared by winners in California, Florida and Tennessee in January 2016. Someone in South Carolina claimed the $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot on Oct. 23. The Powerball game is played by matching all five white balls in any order and the red Powerball number. The odds of picking the correct Powerball grand prize numbers are one in 292,201,338. Powerball tickets cost $2 each, and are sold at thousands of Lottery retailers. Find out where you can buy your Powerball tickets here. You have a better chance of hitting the jackpot if you let the computer pick your numbers, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which operates the Powerball game and reports that about 75 percent of winning tickets have numbers chosen by a computer. The largest Powerball jackpots ever are as follows: $1.586 billion, Jan. 13, 2016 $758.7 million, Aug. 23, 2017 $688 million, Oct. 27, 2018 $590.5 million, May 18, 2013 $587.5 million, Nov. 28, 2012 $564.1 million, Feb. 11, 2015 $559.7 million, Jan. 6, 2018 $487.0 million, July 30, 2016 $456 million, March 17, 2018 $448.4 million, Aug. 7, 2013 $447.8 million, June 10, 2017 $435.3 million, Feb. 22, 2017 When millions more players take part in the game at times there's a huge jackpot, that doesn't change your odds of winning, the lottery says. The odds of winning a prize are the same in every Powerball drawing — you have a 1 in 24.9 chance of winning a prize when the jackpot reaches $40 million or $1 billion.<doc-sep>The latest Powerball drawing on Wednesday night was worth $112 million with a cash option of $68 million. Did anyone get lucky enough to win the jackpot? The lottery drawing was held on Wednesday night at 11 p.m. EST, according to the Powerball website. The winning numbers were 14-29-31-56-61, Powerball 01 and Power Play 2X, the lottery website states. Although no one won the jackpot prize, there was one Match 5 winner who won one million dollars in Texas, according to the Powerball website. The next Powerball drawing will be held on Saturday night at 11 p.m. EST. The jackpot is now worth $129 million with a cash option of $78.3 million, the lottery website states. Powerball lottery drawings are held twice a week on Wednesday and Saturday night at 10:59 p.m. The lottery game is currently the largest game played in the U.S, according to the lottery website. The multi-state game has nine different games to play and always kicks off with a $40 million jackpot. The prize continues to grow until someone wins the jackpot, according to the lottery website. The last person to claim a one million dollar Powerball prize was Stanis Tabler from Charles Town, West Virginia. Tabler matched five of the numbers during the Powerball drawing on January 9. Tabler told lottery officials that he doesn't really play Powerball but took a chance and purchased the winning ticket in Martinsburg, West Virginia. "I play the Lottery weekly, but I play Lotto America regularly and do not play Powerball that often," Tabler told lottery officials. "I cashed in my Lotto America tickets and won $20. So, on a whim, I just told the cashier to give me $20 in Powerball tickets and that is how I won." Tabler claimed his prize on Thursday but asked lottery officials to delay the announcement of his winnings so he could surprise his wife on her birthday, which was on Saturday. "I took her out to breakfast for her birthday on Saturday and had balloons for her. I gave her a framed photograph of me holding the giant check and told her Happy Birthday, this is what every woman wants. A picture of me," Tabler told lottery officials. "She was shocked and couldn't believe it when I told her. She said it was the best birthday ever." Tabler said he plans to use his winnings to take his wife to Hawaii for their 30th wedding anniversary this year.<doc-sep>
Saturday night's Powerball drawing resulted in no jackpot winner meaning that after a few more days the jackpot had time to increase before it was up for grabs again Wednesday night. The jackpot increased to $112 million ahead of Wednesday night's drawing with a cash option of $68 million for the winner. The winning numbers on January 12 were 7, 36, 48, 57, 58 and the Powerball was 24 with a Power Play of 2. Each person who plays has a one in 24.9 chance of winning a prize and there are nine ways to win a prize. To win the jackpot ticket holders have to match all six numbers on their ticket with the six numbers drawn, and the Power Ball has to match exactly. The first five numbers have to match in any order, those numbers are chosen from a pool of balls numbered one through 69 and the Power Ball is chosen from a pool of balls numbered one through 26. The drawing is scheduled for 10:59 p.m. EST Wednesday night. Shortly after the drawing, the winning numbers will be added to the Powerball site and the drawing will also be broadcast live from WSB-TV and available here: Depending on the state, some people can buy tickets up until an hour before the drawing, in some states its two hours before the drawing so anyone who wants to play Wednesday night's lottery should check their state rules. Other rules that vary state to state include whether or not jackpot winners can stay anonymous and how long winners have to cash in their tickets. A few hours after the drawing Powerball announces whether any tickets were sold with the winning numbers and what state that jackpot winner is in. Tickets cost $2 a play and an extra dollar will add on the Power Play. The Power Play multiplies non-jackpot winning prizes by either two, three, four, five or 10. The Power Play number is chosen before each drawing so ticket-holders know before the winning numbers are even drawn whether their winnings might be multiplied. The 10x multiplier isn't valid when the jackpot is over $150 million though and anyone who matched the five white balls and has the Power Play automatically wins $2 million.