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Powerball's jackpot has climbed to an estimated $313 million for the drawing set for Monday, September 21, 2026, after Saturday's drawing produced no grand-prize winner, according to Lottery USA.
- Saturday's winning numbers were 18, 30, 41, 45 and 68, with a red Powerball of 10 and a 2x Power Play — and one ticket sold in New York still walked away with $1 million for matching all five white balls, according to USA Today Network reporting.
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A winner who skips the 30-year annuity and takes a single payment on Monday's prize would collect roughly $133.6 million before taxes.
Powerball's top prize keeps swelling after another drawing came and went without a jackpot winner. Following Saturday night's numbers, the pot for Monday's drawing jumped to an estimated $313 million, with a lump-sum cash option worth $133.6 million before withholding, according to figures posted by Lottery USA.
The Combination That Missed the Jackpot
The numbers drawn Saturday, September 19, were 18, 30, 41, 45 and 68, paired with a red Powerball of 10 and a 2x Power Play multiplier. No ticket matched all six, extending the jackpot's climb from its previous mark of $298 million. The next drawing is locked in for Monday night at the usual 10:59 p.m. Eastern time slot, per scheduling confirmed by USA Mega.
Missing the jackpot didn't mean an empty night for everyone. A ticket sold in New York matched all five white balls and claimed a $1 million Match 5 prize, one of nine payout tiers Powerball offers, ranging from a $4 consolation prize up to $2 million for a Match 5 ticket carrying the Power Play add-on. Across every tier combined, the number of winning tickets jumped from 547,346 in the September 16 drawing to 693,728 on September 19 — a 26.7% increase, according to drawing data compiled by LottoNumbers.
What a Ticket Costs and How Long the Odds Really Are
Playing hasn't gotten any more expensive: a single line still runs $2, with an optional $1 add-on for Power Play, which can multiply non-jackpot winnings by two, three, four, five or ten times when the jackpot sits at or below $150 million. Players pick five numbers from 1 to 69 plus one Powerball number from 1 to 26. Matching every one of them for the jackpot remains a 1-in-292,201,338 shot, among the longest odds of any lottery game in the country.
Cash Now or Payments for 30 Years? The Math Behind the Prize
One of the more confusing parts of any Powerball headline is the gap between the advertised jackpot and what a winner actually pockets upfront. That gap is driven largely by interest rates: when rates run higher, the lottery needs to set aside less money today to fund three decades of rising annuity payments, which shrinks the cash option relative to the advertised total. On a $500 million jackpot, for instance, the immediate cash payout would land around $275 million before taxes — a ratio comparable to what's playing out with the current prize.
How $313 Million Measures Up Against Powerball's Biggest Wins
Even with its steady climb, $313 million is nowhere near Powerball's all-time high: a $2.04 billion prize claimed in California in November 2022. It also trails a pair of billion-dollar jackpots from more recent memory — a $1.787 billion prize split between winners in Missouri and Texas in September 2025, and a $1.817 billion jackpot claimed in Arkansas that December, which reporters have since described as "the second-largest jackpot in the history of the game." Still, $313 million is more than enough to reshape a winner's life, and anticipation tends to build with every drawing that passes without a ticket cashing in.
A Bigger Playing Field: Where Tickets Are Sold Now
Tickets remain on sale through authorized retailers in every participating jurisdiction until each state's cutoff time, typically just minutes before the drawing. For decades, that meant 45 U.S. states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. That footprint expanded in July 2026, when Powerball ticket sales launched in the United Kingdom through a partnership between the Multi-State Lottery Association and Allwyn UK — the first time a lottery outside the United States has fed into the same jackpot pool, according to Powerball's own official announcement. Anyone hoping to check past results or watch Monday's drawing live can do so directly through the lottery's official channels.
