Update: The winning numbers from Wednesday night's Powerball drawing were: 40, 59, 21, 39, 55, and the Powerball was 17. Is that you?

Previous story: Wednesday's Powerball jackpot isn't a record but it is darn close — at least for this year.

The $310.5 million jackpot is the second largest in 2015, and it can only go higher.

So far, since Aug.5, the jackpot has rolled 16 times. If it comes to a screeching halt Wednesday, the big winner(s) will have the option of having the mega-pot paid over 29 years in 30 payments or taking a $191 million-plus lump sum.

Powerball tickets cost $2 each.

The last winner on Aug. 1 was a ticket sold in California, which brought a $110 million jackpot, according to the Georgia Lottery.

The No. 1 winner was May 18 2013 when a Florida player won a $590.5 million pot, according to lottery officials.

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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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