Powerball no jackpot and several $1M prizes ahead of Saturday draw

No ticket matched all six numbers in a string of recent Powerball drawings, producing multiple seven-figure secondary prizes across several states and pushing the advertised jackpot higher ahead of Saturday’s drawing, lottery officials said.

In the Wednesday, Oct. 15 drawing, tickets sold in Florida and Kentucky each won $1 million after matching the five white balls but not the Powerball, the national Powerball site said. The winning white-ball numbers were 10, 13, 28, 34 and 47 and the Powerball was 15; the Power Play multiplier was 3x. Three tickets also won $150,000 prizes, and more than 415,000 other tickets nationwide won smaller prizes ranging from $4 to $50,000. Because there was no jackpot winner, the top prize rose to an estimated $295 million, with a cash value of about $138.1 million, for the next drawing on Saturday, Oct. 18, the site said.

Earlier in the week, the Monday, Oct. 13 drawing produced a $100,000 prize on a ticket sold in Texas that matched four white balls plus the Powerball and included the Power Play, the Texas Lottery said. The winning numbers were 13, 14, 32, 52 and 64 with a Powerball of 12; the Power Play multiplier was 2x. With no jackpot winner...