Powerball Winning Numbers For 4/20/2019 Drawing: $136M Jackpot - Annapolis, MD Patch

The Powerball jackpot at stake on Saturday, April 20, has reached an estimated $136 million. The one-time cash payout for tonight's Powerball drawing will be $83.6 million.

The winning Powerball numbers are drawn every Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. Eastern time, with Powerball results usually posted within five minutes.

In most states, ticket sales stop at least one hour before the drawing, but a state may end sales earlier, such as Illinois, which halts 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 cut-off time.

Check back later tonight for the winning Powerball numbers for Saturday, April 20.

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, 2018, game officials said; the winner chose not to be identified.

To win the Powerball jackpot you must match 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, which doesn't change even if there are more players buying tickets when the jackpot is huge.

You have a better chance of winning the Powerball jackpot if you let the computer select your numbers, according to the officials with the lottery. About 75 percent of winning tickets over the years had numbers picked by a computer.

Powerball tickets cost $2 each. Find locations where you can buy your Powerball tickets here.

These are the five largest Powerball jackpots in history:

$1.586 billion, Jan. 13, 2016
$768.4 million, March 27, 2019
$758.7 million, Aug. 23, 2017
$688 million, Oct. 27, 2018
$590.5 million, May 18, 2013

Winners can choose to either have the full jackpot amount paid out in 30 installments over 29 years, or winners can take one lump sum payment that is smaller than the actual total.

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