Nobody won the jackpot, which now stands at a record $1.4 billion or $868 million cash.
Arizona Lottery has sold 12 grand prize winners since they started participating in 1994.
$150,000 winning tickets were sold in Mecklenburg, Johnston, Sampson, and Pender counties.
No one hit the highest-ever Powerball jackpot Saturday.
One ticket even sold in northeast Kansas for $50,000.
“$1.3 billion on the line, you don’t want aunts and uncles coming out of the woodwork”.
The increase came just two days after no winners were announced at Saturday’s $949.8 million drawing. Officials note 25 of the winning second-tier tickets are worth $1-million, and the remaining three are each worth $3-million, because the players chose the “Power Play” option.
The next Powerball drawing will be Wednesday January 13. The prize tripled from $50,000 to $150,000 when the 3x multiplier was drawn for Power Play tickets.
Those locations will be announced Monday morning.
Which begs the question, what should the lucky victor do with their Powerball earnings?
Meanwhile, other people became downright brutal about the Powerball topic. But someone in Lawrenceville picked up a million-dollar ticket.
The odds are one in 292.2 million, which means you’re really, really, really unlikely to win.
The current jackpot, especially after taxes, gets a victor nowhere near the wealth of local movers and shakers like Arthur Blank, Ted Turner or Bernie Marcus.