Powerball drawing offers $422M jackpot

NEW YORK, July 27 (UPI) -- A winner could be declared Wednesday in the Powerball lottery jackpot that has grown to $422 million as no winners have been declared in nearly three months.

Wednesday night's drawing offers the biggest prize since May 7. The $422 million prize can be withdrawn for a cash value of $291.8 million.

Winning the grand prize requires matching all five numbers, regardless of order, and the red Powerball number.

Although Wednesday's grand prize would make any winner smile, it is dwarfed by January's historic $1.5 billion Powerball lottery -- the biggest in history, anywhere on the globe. Previously, the largest jackpot in U.S. history was $656 million and the largest Powerball was $590.5 million.

In Saturday's drawing, 1.4 million people won non-jackpot prizes of $9,974,422.