The winning Powerball numbers from Wednesday night’s drawing are 2, 11, 26, 34, 41, Powerball 32 – and not a single person hit all of them. Which is fine because now the jackpot has jumped from an I-guess-I-can-squeak-by $365 million to an I’m-on-a-boat $475 million. The next drawing for the Powerball is Saturday. Even though you might not have won the jackpot, make sure you check the Powerball winning numbers because you still might have won a few bucks.

Wednesday’s jackpot was considered the third largest in the multi-state lottery game’s history and the seventh largest overall. Now, without a winner last night, a jackpot of $475 million ranks as the second largest for Powerball and third largest overall.

Lottery officials and those looking to make the easiest $475 million ever will see the jackpot continue to climb in shorter amounts of time, due in part, as noted by Fox News, to “a game redesign in January 2012 that increased the odds of winning some kind of prize, but also lowered the possible number combinations to win” the game.

States competing for $475 million Powerball jackpot. In blue.

So now that you know the next drawing date and the fact that you didn’t win this time, here are a few more tidbits to keep in mind. A $1 increase and new $1 million and $2 million prizes means the odds of winning something have increased; the $2 game used to be only a $1. What a rip-off right? Only last week, with nobody taking home the jackpot, the lottery still paid out prizes to a dozen people for over $ 1 million in ten states.

So time to get that imagination of yours running. Before you spend Saturday night glued in front of your TV watching those whimsical ping pong balls be chosen while you clench your tickets so tensely in your clammy grip that you wrinkle the bar code and fear that the lotto machines won’t be able to read your cherished winner, we want to know what you’d do with your prize. Would you buy a new car? Pay off your student loans? Purchase a house for your parents? Hire someone that knows how to deal with money? Buy tickets to the Bruins playoff series? Let us know what you’d do, just don’t get your hopes up too high. The odds of hitting the jackpot are 1 in 175,223,510.