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No winner in $500M Powerball jackpot

Posted at 1:01 AM, Jan 07, 2016
and last updated 2016-01-07 06:02:11-05

A lottery official says there is no jackpot winner in the drawing for a Powerball prize worth an estimated $500 million.

Kelly Cripe, a spokeswoman for the Texas Lottery, says no one matched the numbers drawn Wednesday night. She says that means the estimated prize for Saturday's drawing is $675 million, the largest jackpot of any lottery game in U.S. history

Wednesday's jackpot was already ranked as the sixth-largest offered in North America and the biggest since a $564.1 million Powerball prize shared by players from North Carolina, Texas and Puerto Rico last February.

The winning numbers from Wednesday night's drawing were: 2, 11, 47, 62, 63 and the Powerball was 17.

Powerball is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

The odds of winning are one in 292.2 million.