--- title: Powerball Jackpot Reaches $510 Million description: People who buy a Powerball jackpot ticket for this Saturday's draw have a 1 in 292.2 million chance of winning half-a-billion dollars. canonical: https://time.com/4904360/powerball-jackpot-half-billion-dollars/ author: Rachel Lewis article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-17T12:19:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:34.559Z og:title: Powerball Jackpot Jumps to $510 Million og:description: The jackpot grew after no winning tickets were sold og:url: https://time.com/4904360/powerball-jackpot-half-billion-dollars/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50891363262b59a3/6988da188fd2ee3d0535875f/powerball-jackpot-billion-dollars.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Powerball Jackpot Expected To Reach A Whopping Record-Breaking 1.5 Billion Dollars og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Powerball Jackpot Jumps to $510 Million twitter:description: The jackpot grew after no winning tickets were sold twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50891363262b59a3/6988da188fd2ee3d0535875f/powerball-jackpot-billion-dollars.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Powerball Jackpot Jumps to $510 Million After No Winning Tickets Sold > Sponsored content. 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A customer buys Powerball tickets at Kavanagh Liquors on January 13, 2016 in San Lorenzo, California. Justin Sullivan - Getty Images by [Rachel Lewis](https://time.com/author/rachel-lewis/) ## Rachel Lewis Aug 17, 2017 12:19 PM UTC People who buy a [Powerball jackpot ticket](http://www.powerball.com/pb%5Fhome.asp) for this Saturday’s draw have a 1 in 292.2 million chance of winning half-a-billion dollars after no winning ticket was sold for Wednesday night’s drawing. Powerball’s website signaled early on Thursday that the jackpot had reached $510 million, meaning that single-ticket winners could take home a rough cash value of $324.2 million. The winning numbers for Wednesday’s $432.5 million Powerball jackpot were 9, 15, 43, 60, 64 and the Powerball number 4\. It was the ninth-highest in jackpot history. However, [Powerball reckons](http://www.powerball.com/powerball/pb%5Fprizes.asp) that there is a 1 in 292,201,338 chance of matching all six numbers and a 1 in 11,688,053 chance of matching five. Some huge jackpot winners don’t think that they have been so lucky. [Jack Whittaker won $315 million but said](http://time.com/4176128/powerball-jackpot-lottery-winners/): ‘I wish that we had torn that ticket up.” Powerball is played in 44 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4904360/powerball-jackpot-half-billion-dollars/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4904360/powerball-jackpot-half-billion-dollars/"},"headline":"Powerball Jackpot Jumps to $510 Million After No Winning Tickets Sold","datePublished":"2017-08-17T12:19:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:34.559Z","description":"With a cash value of $324.2 million","url":"https://time.com/4904360/powerball-jackpot-half-billion-dollars/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Powerball","jackpot","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50891363262b59a3/6988da188fd2ee3d0535875f/powerball-jackpot-billion-dollars.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachel Lewis","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rachel-lewis/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50891363262b59a3/6988da188fd2ee3d0535875f/powerball-jackpot-billion-dollars.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Powerball Jackpot Expected To Reach A Whopping Record-Breaking 1.5 Billion Dollars","caption":"Powerball Jackpot Expected To Reach A Whopping Record-Breaking 1.5 Billion Dollars","creditText":"Justin Sullivan - Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4904360/powerball-jackpot-half-billion-dollars/","name":"Powerball Jackpot Jumps to $510 Million After No Winning Tickets Sold"}}]}] ```