Powerball Numbers For 04/04/20: Saturday Jackpot was Worth $180 Million

By Scott McDonald On 4/4/20 at 6:48 PM EDT

The Powerball jackpot for 04/04/20 was worth $180 million. Here are the numbers from the Saturday night drawing.

First Five: 08-31-39-40-43
Powerball: 04
Power Play: 3x

Saturday night's 04/04/20 Powerball jackpot was estimated at $180 million, with a cash option of $144.8 million. The jackpot could have increased if sales furthered lottery projections, according to officials.

The winning numbers on Wednesday (04/01/20) for the $170 million Powerball jackpot were: 33-35-45-48-60 with a Powerball of 16. The Power Play was 2x.

There was no grand prize winner on Wednesday, nor were there any tickets sold that matched all five white balls, and just missing out on the red Powerball, for the game's second prize of $1 million.

The last grand prize won was $70 million in the 02/12/20 drawing with a ticket purchased in Michigan.

The previous grand prize winner before that was on 01/29/20. That ticket was sold at a 7-Eleven store on Bonita Beach Road in Bonita Springs, Florida, for the $394 million grand prize, which had a cash option of $274.6 million. That 7-Eleven store will receive $100,000 for selling the winning ticket.

The last grand prize winning ticket before that was sold in California on 11/02/19 for a jackpot of $150 million. The Powerball jackpot rolled over 33 times before the Bonita Springs ticket was purchased on January 29, 2020.

Louisiana Power Play Ticket — A Powerball ticket purchased near Lafayette, Louisiana, in February 2020. Photo by Scott McDonald/Newsweek

The odds of hitting the grand prize jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338, regardless of the jackpot size—according to Powerball's website.

Powerball is a multi-state lottery played every Wednesday and Saturday, and one of America's two biggest lottery jackpot games. Powerball jackpots start at $40 million, and other prizes pay from $1 million to $2 million with a Power Play. Tickets are $2. You can check the numbers for tonight, or any past winning numbers, on the official Powerball website.

The other multi-state lottery is Mega Millions, which is played on Tuesdays and Fridays. Like Powerball, the jackpot is reset at $40 million after a jackpot is won, and one line of numbers is $2, with a $1 option to multiply their winnings with a Megaplier. Here is the Mega Millions website for more information, or to check any potential past numbers.

There are nine ways to win money during the Powerball. Just getting the powerball with no other numbers pays out $4, and even more if the power play is bought for an extra dollar. The same payout goes for one ball plus the powerball, and $7 is the payout for two correct numbers with the powerball, or three correct numbers and no powerball.

If all five white, numbered balls are chosen but the red powerball is not correct, then the payout is $1 million, with an even higher payout if the power play is chosen.