A sign outside the One Stop Mart shows the winning amounts for lottery games including the $550 million for the Powerball jackpot on November 28, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. / Scott Olson/Getty Images
[h=3]Powerball mania sweeps the nation[/h]
[h=3]The dark side of the lottery[/h]
Now that the numbers have been drawn, all that's left to do is wait for someone -- if anyone -- to claim the prize of $579 million.
At 11:00 p.m. ET, the highly anticipated Powerball results were revealed to be the following:
Record Powerball jackpot: What to do if you win
CBS News correspondent Anna Werner reports the odds of winning are one in 175 million. Still, that didn't deter Americans from purchasing a shot at the second-largest payout in U.S. history and the highest ever Powerball game. Over 160 million tickets were sold, going at a rate of 130,000 a minute nationwide on Wednesday. At one point, Florida was selling 200,000 tickets per minute.
The jackpot has already rolled over 16 consecutive times without a winner, but Powerball officials say they now believe there is a 75 percent chance the winning combination will be drawn this time.
If one ticket hits the right numbers, chances are good that multiple ones will, according to some experts. That happened in the Mega Millions drawing in March, when three ticket buyers shared a $656 million jackpot, which remains the largest lottery payout of all time.
