New Powerball drawing days LIVE – Lottery to start THIRD weekly drawing on August 23 in boost to jackpots & cash prizes

CONSISTENTLY LARGER PRIZES

May Scheve Reardon, the Missouri Lottery executive director and current leader of Powerball, said the additional lottery is to ensure conssitently larger jackpots.

“Jackpot fatigue is real and by increasing the days of the draws we’ll be able to grow bigger jackpots faster and get more people interested in the game and turn over more money to our beneficiaries,” Reardon said.