No winning ticket was sold for Wednesday’s drawing. Here’s what to know about the big jackpot. The longest previous run was in 2021, when it took 41 drawings before someone clinched a $699.8 million jackpot. Saturday’s will be the 40th consecutive drawing. The Powerball jackpot rose from $1.5 billion to $1.6 billion Friday, breaking the record for the largest in lottery history.Īfter Wednesday’s drawing yielded no winner, the game’s jackpot climbed to $1.5 billion, close to the world record of $1.586 billion in 2016.