How does more than half a billion dollars sound for a Christmas present?  That’s the jackpot in Wednesday’s Powerball drawing.

No ticket was sold with the winning numbers 05,08,19,34, 39, and red ball 26 drawn in Monday’s drawing. The Power Play was 3X.

That means the jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing grows to $572 million, or $286.7 million if you take the cash.

This is the fourth Powerball jackpot to climb above half a billion dollars this year. The Powerball jackpot was previously won on Oct. 11, 2023, by a ticket in California that won a grand prize worth $1.765 billion. Since then, there have been 28 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner.

Powerball tickets are $2 per play and are sold in 45 states.

The overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24.9. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.