THE Power Ball jackpot for Monday lottery the draw is estimated at $28 million with a cash option of $13.4 million.

The winning numbers will be posted here as soon as they are drawn on Monday evening.

No one hit Saturday’s $20 million jackpot.

Saturday’s winning numbers were: 8, 12, 40, 45, 51. The Powerball was 15 with a 2x Power Play.

Two second-prize tickets, worth $1 million each, were sold in Pennsylvania and Texas.

No one won the $10 million Double Play secondary drawing on Wednesday. These winning numbers were: 1, 42, 43, 58 and 66. The Double Play Ball number was 20.

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 292,201,388 to 1. A player who buys a $2 ticket has about a 1 in 11,688,053 chance of matching five numbers and winning at least $1 million, while the odds are 913,129 to 1 of winning a third prize of $1 million. at least $50,000.

Powerball drawings are held every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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