Powerball drawing on April 27, 2022

NEW YORK - The Powerball climbed to at least $454 million for Wednesday night's drawing after no one matched the winning numbers on Monday night. The drawing took place on Monday at 10:59 p.m. 

The winning Powerball numbers for Monday, April 25, 2022, are 12, 18, 20, 39, 61, and the Powerball of 10. The power play is 2X. 

Players had until 10 p.m. to buy a $2 ticket for the drawing. Powerball drawings are held on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.

Powerball is played by the customer choosing five numbers 1 to 69 and one number 1 to 26 to be the Powerball. To win the Powerball jackpot, a player needs to match the six numbers on their ticket to the drawn six-number combination (five numbers plus the Powerball).

Staten Island man wins $245.6M Powerball jackpot

The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.

There hasn't been a Powerball winning since the February 14 drawing when a ticket in Connecticut won a $185.3 million jackpot. Since then, there have been 29 drawings in a row without a jackpot winner.

The lottery says the overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 24.90.

A Staten Island man won a $1 million second prize for matching the five Powerball numbers drawn on Jan. 24.

Odds of winning the Powerball jackpot

The overall odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are just 1 in 292.2 million. To put that into perspective, those odds are a little worse than flipping a coin and getting heads 28 straight times, University of Nebraska-Omaha mathematics professor Andrew Swift previously told the Associated Press.