To get a clearer picture of the prize size, if you were to stack up $500 million with $100 bills, it would roughly be the size of the One World Trade Center.
The winning Powerball numbers for Saturday’s drawing are 19-25-48-55-60 with the Powerball 18 and Power Play 2.
Powerball’s jackpot, which has continued to grow since August, surged to $580 million ahead of Saturday night’s drawing.
Lottery players will now have the chance at the game’s 10th largest jackpot after the prize increased from $550 million to $580 million on Friday.
No one won Wednesday’s jackpot, though a briefly delayed drawing had players wondering their fate. There have now been 33 drawings without a grand prize winner, resulting in the jackpot crossing the half a billion dollar mark.
Saturday’s prize is an estimated $580 million, with a cash option of $278.
