No Jackpot-Winning Powerball Tickets Sold, Raising Drawing to $700 Million

Jan. 7, 2016, 4:02 AM UTC / Updated Jan. 7, 2016, 4:55 PM UTC

By The Associated Press and Hasani Gittens

Here's the bad news: You didn't win the monster Powerball jackpot Wednesday night.

The good news: Neither did anyone else.

That means the jackpot will roll over to an estimated $700 million — the largest lottery prize in U.S. history, according to Texas Lottery spokesperson Kelly Cripe — when it's drawn again Saturday night.

The numbers drawn in Wednesday night's $500 million jackpot were 2, 11, 47, 62 and 63. The Powerball number is 17, with a multiplier of 3.

The $500 million prize ranked as the sixth largest offered in North America and the biggest since a $564.1 million Powerball prize shared by players from North Carolina, Texas and Puerto Rico last February.

A winner of Wednesday's jackpot could have claimed the pre-tax $500 million prize through an annuity over 29 years or in a single pre-tax lump-sum payout of $306 million. The estimated lump-sum payout for Saturday's jackpot is now $$428 million.

Powerball is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

The Associated Press

Hasani Gittens

Hasani Gittens is a Senior News Editor at NBCNews.com. Gittens, a WNBC veteran, joined NBCNews.com in January 2013. Before that he worked at The Daily — News Corp's short-lived "iPad newspaper" — where he spent two years also as a news editor.

Prior to that, he worked at WNBC as the managing editor of the station's website, and even longer ago he spent eight years as a reporter and eventually an editor for the New York Post.

Gittens lives in Queens, New York.