(Radio Iowa) – No winning tickets were sold for Saturday’s Powerball drawing and TONIGHT’S (Monday’s) jackpot has now swelled to an estimated one-point-nine BILLION dollars. Three tickets sold in Iowa for SATURDAY’S drawing were one number away from claiming the previous world-record jackpot of one-point-six billion. Those three tickets each matched four of the first five numbers drawn, along with the correct Powerball number.

Iowa Lottery officials say two of those tickets — worth 50-thousand dollars each — were purchased in Clinton and Sabula. The person who bought the other ticket in Sheldon paid a dollar extra for the so-called “Power Play” option and it made their winning ticket worth 150-thousand dollars.

Over five-point-nine MILLION dollars worth of Powerball tickets were sold IN IOWA for Saturday’s drawing. Iowa Lottery officials have released a list of the top 10 retailers for Iowa Lottery sales from Sunday, October 30th through Saturday, November 5th. Half are in the Cedar Rapids-Marion metro and among the 10 top lottery retailers last week, nine are Hy-Vee stores.