Powerball jackpot increases to $960 million, edges towards billion dollar grand prize

Saturday's drawing will be the 31st consecutive drawing in the jackpot run after no winners

After no one won the grand prize for Wednesday night's Powerball drawing, the jackpot jumped to an estimated $960 million on Saturday evening edging towards a billion dollar grand prize.

According to Powerball, the jackpot has a cash value of $441.4 million. 

Saturday's numbers were 19, 30, 37, 44, 46 and the Powerball was 22. Power Play was 2x.

People lined up to play Powerball lottery at a 7-Eleven store in Milpitas, California, United States on November 7, 2022. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Saturday's drawing will be Powerball’s second-largest jackpot this year and fourth-largest jackpot in its history.

POWERBALL NUMBERS DRAWN FOR $750 MILLION JACKPOT

The previous Powerball jackpot totaled $1.08 billion and was claimed on July 19 by one person in California.

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Powerball tickets at The Hub on Broadway on Friday, March 22, 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts.  (Nicolaus Czarnecki/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Drawings are held three times per week: every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.

POWERBALL JACKPOT GROWS TO AN ESTIMATED $960M- 4TH LARGEST IN HISTORYPowerball tickets are $2 per play. Tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

A woman checks her Powerball lottery tickets at a 7-Eleven store in Milpitas, California, United States on November 7, 2022. Today's Powerball jackpot hits a record $1.9 billion. The largest Powerball jackpot ever won was in January 2016 when three w (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) / Getty Images)

Powerball says the odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24.9. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.