Powerball Jackpot Tonight: $793 Million Drawing Is Set for Monday Night, With a $339.9 Million Cash Option
Monday night's Powerball drawing carries an estimated $793 million jackpot — the 10th largest in Powerball history — after no ticket matched all six numbers on Halloween; the drawing is at 7:59 p.m. Pacific, and California prizes are exempt from state income tax.
The Powerball jackpot stands at an estimated $793 million for Monday night's drawing, with a cash option of $339.9 million, after no ticket matched all six winning numbers in Saturday's Halloween drawing, according to Powerball figures reported by USA Today and read by the Local Desk this cycle. The winning numbers on Saturday, October 31, were 2, 4, 18, 50 and 56, with the Powerball 20; three tickets matched all five white balls to win million-dollar prizes, in North Carolina, Georgia and the United Kingdom. This story is a drawing-night service file; the results story was published Sunday as SQ-20261101-021 and is not duplicated.
Monday's drawing is at 10:59 p.m. Eastern time — 7:59 p.m. Pacific — and it will be the 35th drawing since the jackpot was last won, on August 12, when a ticket sold in Quincy, Illinois, hit for an estimated $1.04 billion, according to the reporting read this cycle. At $793 million, the prize ranks as the 10th largest Powerball jackpot ever and the 20th largest U.S. lottery jackpot. A ticket costs $2, and the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
For California players, two local rules apply: California Lottery prizes, including Powerball tickets bought in the state, are exempt from California state income tax, and California pays every prize tier on a pari-mutuel basis rather than at the fixed amounts in the national chart, according to the California lottery explainers read this cycle. A California winner who took Monday's cash option would owe federal tax only. Winning numbers from Monday's drawing will be filed by the desk when they are published.
