The Powerball lottery jackpot soared to an estimated $290 million after no one won the grand prize in Wednesday’s drawing, according to the game’s website.
The winning numbers for the July 31 drawing were 8, 24, 39, 49, 59 and the Powerball number was 5.
The next drawing will be Saturday, August 3.
The chances of winning the Powerball grand prize are 1 in 175,223,510.
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Mirlande Wilson, a McDonald’s employee in Baltimore, claimed she had won the record-high $656 million Mega Millions jackpot and that she was not going to share her winnings with co-workers, who alleged that Wilson was a part of a workplace lottery pool. Wilson announced that she had hid the winning ticket at a McDonald’s and subsequently claimed to have lost the ticket. In the end, it was revealed Wilson never even had the winning ticket.
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