With no winner in the Powerball drawing Saturday night, the jackpot has grown to almost a quarter of a billion dollars.

Wednesday night's drawing will be worth $245 million to a single winner. A winner choosing the cash option would get $146 million before taxes.

Saturday night's numbers were 11, 16, 40, 51, 56 and the powerball was 38.

As big as $245 million sounds, the jackpot has been larger. In 2006, eight co-workers in Nebraska split a $365 million prize.

The Mega Millions jackpot is up to $78 million. The next Mega Millions drawing will be Tuesday.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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