In 60 seconds: No ticket matched all six numbers in Saturday's Halloween Powerball drawing, so the jackpot rolls over to an estimated $793 million for Monday night — with a $340 million cash option.
- Saturday's winning numbers were 2, 4, 18, 50, 56, with Powerball 20 and a 3x Power Play.
- No ticket matched all six numbers — and none matched five numbers without the Powerball either.
- Saturday's jackpot was $760 million; Monday's drawing is worth an estimated $793 million.
- Monday's cash option is about $340 million, before taxes.
- The next drawing is Monday, November 2, at 10:59 p.m. ET from Tallahassee, Florida.
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| A Powerball jackpot billboard in Missouri. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 |
Check your ticket, then check it again — because Saturday night's Halloween drawing made a lot of people briefly rich in their imaginations and nobody rich in real life. The Powerball jackpot survived another drawing, and now it's worth even more.
Here's the thing: this wasn't a close call. Nobody hit the jackpot, and remarkably, nobody even landed the second-tier prize. That's what pushed the prize to $793 million for Monday night.
What happened
Powerball drew its Halloween numbers on Saturday night, October 31, 2026: 2, 4, 18, 50, 56, with the red Powerball 20 and a Power Play multiplier of 3x. The jackpot on offer was an estimated $760 million, with a cash value of $325.7 million.
When the dust settled, the Multi-State Lottery Association confirmed there was no jackpot winner. And in a twist that regular players will notice, there were also no tickets sold with five numbers but missing the Powerball number — the combination that normally pays $1 million, or $2 million with Power Play.
So the whole prize pool rolls forward. Saturday's drawing was the 33rd since the last time a ticket matched all six numbers, stretching a jackpot run that began after the last win on August 12, 2026, when a $1.04 billion ticket was sold in Quincy, Illinois.
Latest verified facts
The next drawing is Monday, November 2, at 10:59 p.m. ET, from the Florida Lottery's studio in Tallahassee. The estimated jackpot is $793 million, and the cash option is approximately $340 million before taxes.
For context: the Wednesday, October 28 drawing offered $716 million, with numbers 11, 13, 16, 47, 60, Powerball 13 and a 2x Power Play — and no winner there either. Each miss follows the same pattern: the prize climbs, and the crowd of hopeful players grows.
The odds are brutally honest. Matching all five white balls plus the red Powerball is a 1-in-292.2-million shot, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. The overall chance of winning any prize at all is 1 in 24.9 — much friendlier, but those prizes are mostly a few dollars back.
Powerball is played in 45 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, with drawings every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
Why it matters
Let's be plain about why this earns space on a news site: millions of Americans searched for these exact numbers today. "Powerball winning numbers" was the hottest query in the United States this morning, and the people typing it deserve a straight answer, not stale results.
It also matters because the gap between the two numbers in every headline — $793 million versus $340 million — confuses almost everyone. The big figure is the advertised prize; the smaller one is the cash option, the lump sum a winner can take instead, before taxes take their share. Knowing that difference before Monday night is the difference between dreaming accurately and dreaming wildly.
And a quieter point: a 33-draw rollover isn't a sign something is rigged. With odds that long, long dry spells are normal — and they're exactly what builds jackpots this size.
Impact on the USA and the world
Across the country, the rollover means a fresh wave of Monday ticket sales and office pools. Shops in the 45 participating states will see the familiar jackpot bump, and state lotteries will collect another round of revenue whether or not anyone wins.
The story also travels well beyond American players. Powerball's giant jackpots have become a global curiosity, and each rollover adds another chapter to a run that started in mid-August and hasn't produced a winner in 33 tries. If Monday's drawing finally ends it, the winner will instantly become one of the biggest lottery stories of the year.
One caution: the only place to confirm a win is your own state lottery. Social media will be full of fake "winning number" posts by Monday morning — trust the official draw, not a screenshot.
What happens next
Monday night, 10:59 p.m. ET, the balls roll again in Tallahassee. If someone matches all six, the run ends and the jackpot resets to $20 million — the same reset that followed the August 12 win. If nobody matches, the prize climbs again, only louder.
Our take: don't buy a ticket because you expect to win — the odds say you almost certainly won't. Buy one, if you buy one at all, because a couple of dollars for a weekend of daydreaming is a fair trade, and because Monday's $793 million question is a lot more fun to argue about than most.
Frequently asked questions
What were the winning Powerball numbers for Saturday, October 31, 2026? The numbers were 2, 4, 18, 50, 56, with Powerball 20 and a Power Play multiplier of 3x.
Did anyone win the Powerball jackpot on Saturday? No. No ticket matched all six numbers, and no ticket matched five numbers without the Powerball either, so the jackpot rolled over.
How much is Monday's Powerball jackpot? An estimated $793 million, with a cash option of approximately $340 million before taxes.
When is the next Powerball drawing? Monday, November 2, 2026, at 10:59 p.m. ET, from the Florida Lottery studio in Tallahassee.
Sources
- MyNewsLA — "Powerball Numbers Drawn" and "No Tickets Sold With All Six Powerball Numbers; Jackpot Rises to $793 Million," November 1, 2026
- Parade — "Powerball Jackpot Soars Toward $1 Billion After No One Wins Saturday's Drawing," November 1, 2026
- TCPalm / Florida Today — Powerball results and drawing details, October 31, 2026
- Tennessee Lottery results via Sumner County Source, November 1, 2026