Did Anyone Win Wednesday’s Powerball? March 2 Winning Numbers And Saturday’s Jackpot

Wednesday’s Powerball drawing did not produce any grand prize winners for the estimated $73 million jackpot with a cash option of $48.6 million. The next drawing is Saturday, with the jackpot climbing to an estimated $85 million, with a cash option of $56.6 million.

The winning lottery numbers drawn on Wednesday night were 19, 37, 48, 61, 63, with a red Powerball pull of 12. The PowerPlay was 2X.

Along with no grand prize winners, none of the players became instant millionaires. Players who would have hit the Match 5 would have won $1 million. However, players who would have hit the Match 5 with the 2X Power Play would have won $2 million each.

While there weren’t million-dollar wins on Wednesday, there were several smaller monetary prizes that also resulted from the latest Powerball drawing.

There were five players who won the Match 4 plus red Powerball and took home $50,000 each. Meanwhile, there were two players who ended up hitting the Match 4 plus the red Powerball with a 2X Power Play, winning $100,000. The other monetary wins from the latest lottery drawing ranged between $4 and $200.

The latest drawing comes as two winning tickets for $50,000 were purchased in Arizona. One ticket was bought at a Shell station in Mesa, while the other was sold at Speedway station in Marana. Both of the tickets matched four numbers in the Monday drawing.

The Powerball costs $2 per play. To become a jackpot winner, a player must match the six numbers on their ticket to the drawn six-number combination. Five numbers need to be selected from 1 to 69 for the white balls, and a number is selected from 1 to 26 for the red Powerball.

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.