(CNN) � The has grown to $700 million for Wednesday night’s drawing.
The numbers drawn Wednesday were 4, 11, 38, 51, 68 and Powerball 5.
Sales officials increased the jackpot Wednesday by about $15 million due to strong ticket sales. The top prize now carries a lump-sum option estimated at $352.3 million, the said.
This grand prize would be the ninth-largest prize in Powerball history, it said.
Monday’s drawing yielded no grand prize match of all six numbers, Two tickets took home the $2 million Match 5+ Power Play Prize in Colorado and Georgia, and three got the $1 million Match 5 in California, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.
The Powerball jackpot was last won on October 11, when a ticket in . The odds of winning the grand prize are 1 in 292,201,338, according to Powerball. Tickets cost $2 per play and are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
Meanwhile, the person who bought the winningest ticket in big-jackpot multistate lottery � Mega Millions � may never be known publicly.
The official winner of that game’s $1.6 billion jackpot, drawn in August, is a limited liability company called Saltines Holdings, LLC, the Florida Lottery Wednesday. The recipient is set to get a lump-sum payment of more than $794 million and can stay anonymous through the LLC.
CNN’s Andy Rose contributed to this report.
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