LANSING, MI -- There was no winner of the Powerball jackpot for the drawing held on Wednesday, Dec. 17, marking the 44th consecutive drawing without a winner. That means the drawing scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 20 will be worth an estimated $1.5 billion, with a cash option of $686.5 million.

The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday, Dec. 17, has reached an estimated $1.25 billion. No one won the jackpot in the Monday, Dec. 15, drawing, though two tickets won $1 million. The winning numbers for Monday, Dec. 15, were 23-35-59-63-68 with a Powerball of 2.

Two Powerball tickets worth $200,000 and one worth $50,000 were purchased in New Jersey for Monday night’s lottery drawing. The $200,000 tickets were both sold in Parsippany, Morris County. One was purchased at a Wawa on New Road and the other at the Shell gas station on Route 46 east, lottery officials said.

The cash option for tonight's drawing is worth an estimated $572.1 million. The current jackpot is the sixth largest in the game's history.

The winning numbers for an estimated $1.25 billion Powerball jackpot — the game's sixth-largest prize ever — are 25, 33, 53, 62 and 66 with a Powerball of 17. Wednesday's jackpot has an estimated cash value of $572.1 million, Powerball said .

The winning numbers for the Wednesday, Dec. 17, drawing are: 25, 33, 53, 62, 66, and the Powerball is 17. The "Power Play" multiplier is 4x. Winning lottery numbers are sponsored byJackpocket, the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network.

The Powerball jackpot has surged to a monstrous $1.5 billion — the fifth-largest in the game’s history —ahead of the holidays after no ticket matched all six winning numbers drawn on Wednesday night. The winning numbers for the estimated $1.27 billion jackpot were 25, 33, 53, 62 and 66, with red Powerball 17.