Powerball Winning Numbers For 7/24/2019 Drawing: $63M Jackpot

There's $63 million up for grabs with Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot. The one-time cash payout will be $41.2 million for the drawing on Wednesday, July 24.

Winning Powerball numbers are drawn every Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. Eastern time, with Powerball results usually posted within five minutes.

In most states, ticket sales stop at least one hour before the drawing, but states can end sales earlier. For example, Illinois stops selling Powerball tickets three hours before the drawing. In Maryland and New Jersey, ticket sales end at 9:59 p.m.; in Virginia, they close at 10 p.m. Check with your state lottery agency for the cut-off time.

The winning numbers for Wednesday's drawing are 22, 29, 35, 53, 56 and 13.

The largest Powerball jackpot in history was $1.586 billion, which was shared by winners in California, Florida and Tennessee in January 2016.

A player in South Carolina claimed the $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot on Oct. 23, 2018, game officials said; the winner chose not to be identified.

To win the Powerball jackpot, a player must match all five white balls in any order and the red Powerball number. The odds of picking the correct Powerball grand prize numbers are one in 292,201,338, which stays the same regardless of how many people are playing.

You have a better chance of winning the Powerball jackpot if you let the computer pick out your numbers, according to lottery officials, who say about 75 percent of winning tickets over the years had auto-generated numbers.

Powerball tickets cost $2 apiece. Find locations where you can buy your Powerball tickets here.

These are the five largest Powerball jackpots in the game's history:

• $1.586 billion, Jan. 13, 2016
• $768.4 million, March 27, 2019
• $758.7 million, Aug. 23, 2017
• $688 million, Oct. 27, 2018
• $590.5 million, May 18, 2013

Winners can choose either to have the full jackpot amount paid out in 30 installments over 29 years, or they can take one lump sum payment that is smaller than the actual total.