Will 39th try be the charm for Powerball hopefuls?

For 38 consecutive drawings, no entrant has picked the winning numbers in the Powerball lottery.

The Wednesday drawing at 7:59 p.m. will be worth an estimated $1.2 billion, making it the fourth largest in U.S. history. That payout is for winners who receive their money through an annuity paid over 29 years. Winners almost always opt for cash, which for Wednesday night’s drawing will be an estimated $596 million.

The biggest jackpot was a $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot won by three ticketholders in 2016.

The winning numbers drawn Monday for a $1 billion estimated jackpot were white balls 13, 19, 36, 39, 59 and the red Powerball 13. Tickets cost $2.

Daily lines have been a factor of doing business for days at The Lotto Store at Primm, Calif., just feet across the Nevada border. Lottery outlets in Arizona have similar conditions.

Also, it’s common for those heading south on Interstate 15 to buy tickets to bypass the Primm store for locations deeper into California to avoid what would be an hours-long stand-in-line process.

Tweaking the Powerball rules and cost of tickets has resulted in fewer winners, but bigger jackpots. The latest tweak enacted in August was to hold three drawings a week instead of two.

No one has hit all six numbers since Aug. 3, meaning there have now been 38 consecutive draws without a jackpot winner — a testament to how slim the odds are of winning the jackpot: 1 in 292.2 million. The chance of winning any cash prize is about 1 in 25.

Nevada is one of five states that does not offer Mega Millions or Powerball, but the Primm Valley Lotto Store sits just over the border on the California side about 45 miles from Las Vegas off Interstate 15.

Powerball is also played in Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. States that do not have Powerball are Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah.

Contact Marvin Clemons at [email protected]. Follow @Marv_in_Vegas on Twitter. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

10 LARGEST US LOTTERY JACKPOTS

1. $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)

2. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)

3. $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)

4. $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)

5. $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)

6. $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)

7. $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)

8. $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021 (one ticket, from California)

9. $687.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 27, 2018 (two tickets, from Iowa and New York)

10. $656 million, Mega Millions, March 30, 2012 (three tickets, from Kansas, Illinois and Maryland)

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