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The Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s lottery drawing has climbed to $46 million with a cash option of $21.5 million. Saturday’s winning numbers were: 7, 33, 40, 43 and 69. The Powerball drawn was 10, with a Power Play of 5X. No one across the country hit Wednesday’s $31 million jackpot. There were also no second-prize, $1 million tickets sold. The odds of hitting the Powerball jackpot are 292,201,388 to 1. A player who buys a $2 ticket has about a 1 in 11,688,053 chance to match five numbers and win at least $1 million, while the odds are 913,129 to 1 to win a third prize of at least $50,000. …

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