Get ready for an exciting Wednesday as the Powerball jackpot reaches an impressive $207 million! To win, participants need to align all five white balls and the red Powerball. Just a month ago, an Illinois ticket celebrated an incredible $1.

The Powerball numbers are in for the Monday, Aug. 31 drawing worth an estimated $131 million and the jackpot goes up again after no ticket matched all six winning numbers. There was no jackpot winner in California, but check your tickets: There were 41,931 winning tickets, according to the California Lottery, including one worth $22,655.

Choose five numbers 1 to 69 and one number 1 to 26 to be your Powerball. To win the Powerball jackpot, match the six numbers on your ticket to the drawn six-number combination (five numbers plus the Powerball). The odds of winning the jackpot prize are 1 ...