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MIAMI, FLORIDA - AUGUST 26: A customer holds a Powerball lottery ticket after purchasing it at the Downtown Miami Souvenirs store on August 26, 2025 in Miami, Florida. The Powerball jackpot has climbed to $815 million ahead of Wednesday's drawing, making the jackpot the 10th-largest in Powerball history. (Credit: Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) No winner, again: Saturday's numbers were 14, 16, 23, 58, 69 and Powerball 3, with a 2x Power Play — the second straight drawing without a jackpot winner.
- The dollar figure changed after the draw: The confirmed jackpot settled at $235.8 million, not the $232 million estimate some outlets were still citing hours before the drawing.
- Next up: An estimated $251 million is on the table for Monday's drawing at 10:59 p.m. ET, Sept. 14.
- The drought is longer than reported: The last jackpot, an officially confirmed $1.04 billion, was won in Quincy, Illinois, on Aug. 12 — that's 13 drawings ago, not 11.
Nobody in the country matched all six numbers Saturday night, so Powerball's grand prize survives into the new week instead of landing in someone's bank account. Results pages run by the lottery's own state partners now put the confirmed prize for that drawing at $235.8 million, a few million dollars higher than the figure that was circulating earlier in the day, and the jackpot has already rolled forward, now standing at an estimated $251 million heading into Monday night.
Saturday's Numbers, Confirmed
Saturday's balls came up 14, 16, 23, 58 and 69, capped by a red Powerball of 3 and a 2x Power Play multiplier. It marked the second straight drawing without a jackpot winner, following Wednesday's numbers of 9, 40, 42, 55 and 65 with a Powerball of 23, a drawing that alone produced more than 450,000 smaller winning tickets nationwide.
Two lottery data trackers list slightly different overall winner counts for Saturday's drawing — one puts the figure at 663,484 tickets sharing roughly $5.4 million in prizes, another counts 681,958 — a gap likely tied to how each service times its ticket-sales cutoff before publishing. Either way, thousands of players walked away with something even without a jackpot hit.
Why the Jackpot Number Moved
The jackpot figure itself needed a correction. Coverage published earlier Saturday, before the drawing, cited an estimate of $232 million with a $98.6 million cash option. By the time the drawing was official, the confirmed total reported across state lottery results pages had climbed to $235.8 million, with the cash value holding at $98.6 million. That's a routine, if underreported, quirk of how jackpots work: the advertised number keeps moving right up until ticket sales close, and only the post-drawing figure is the real one.
Correcting the Timeline Since the Last Winner
Whoever eventually breaks this streak will be chasing a jackpot that's grown for 13 straight drawings, not 11. The last ticket to match all six numbers was sold at a Hy-Vee gas station in Quincy, Illinois, for the Aug. 12 drawing — it matched 4, 26, 66, 67 and 69, plus a Powerball of 9. State lottery officials confirmed the prize at $1.04 billion once final ticket sales were tallied, with a $450.5 million cash option; it's the eighth-biggest prize the game has paid out in its three-plus decades of drawings. "Congratulations to our newest Powerball jackpot winner in Illinois," Powerball Product Group chair Stephen Durrell said in a statement after the win.
From there, the count resets: the very next drawing, on Aug. 15, produced a $21.7 million jackpot with zero grand-prize winners, and thirteen straight drawings later — running through Aug. 17, 19, 22, 24, 26, 29 and 31, then Sept. 2, 5, 7, 9 and finally Saturday's Sept. 12 draw — nobody has matched all six numbers, which is how a $21.7 million prize turned into $235.8 million.
How Powerball Has Quietly Gone International
Powerball's map has also expanded. Alongside the familiar 45 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, tickets have been on sale in the United Kingdom since July 21, 2026, through a partnership between the game's Multi-State Lottery Association and the operator of the UK's National Lottery. British buyers now feed the same prize pool U.S. players compete for — a first for the game outside American borders — and officials say the added ticket volume should push jackpots up faster without touching the odds or the $2 U.S. ticket price. Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah remain the only holdout U.S. states.
How the Game Works
The mechanics of the game are unchanged. A base ticket runs $2, and it requires choosing five digits in the 1-69 range before adding one more, the red Powerball, somewhere between 1 and 26. Add Power Play for $1 more and every prize tier below the jackpot gets multiplied by whatever number comes up that night — except the Match-5 prize, which simply jumps from $1 million to a flat $2 million whenever Power Play is attached. A separate $1 Double Play add-on gives ticket holders a shot at a second, immediate drawing worth up to $10 million. Saturday's Double Play numbers were 21, 24, 32, 48 and 51, with a Double Play Powerball of 12.
The jackpot odds sit at 1 in 292.2 million, though a player's odds of winning anything at all are closer to 1 in 25. For scale, the two biggest prizes in Powerball history remain the $2.04 billion won in California in November 2022 and the $1.817 billion claimed in Arkansas last Christmas Eve; September 2025's $1.787 billion, split between Missouri and Texas, still ranks third.
What's Next
Monday's drawing airs at the usual 10:59 p.m. ET slot, with the prize now pegged at an estimated $251 million. Before that, Powerball's new NFL-branded spinoff, Xs & Os, holds its first-ever drawing Sunday night at 10 p.m. ET for a $1 million prize; tickets cost $5 and have been on sale in roughly two dozen states since Sept. 8, with players picking eight favorite team logos instead of numbers.
