Powerball Results Today: Winning Numbers, Jackpot Winners & Next Drawing

The most recent Powerball drawing was Saturday night, and nobody won anything at the top of the board. Here are the numbers, what they paid, and what Monday is worth.

One thing first, because it catches people out: Powerball does not draw every night.

What were the latest Powerball winning numbers?

13, 31, 54, 57 and 65, with a red Powerball of 23 and a 3x Power Play multiplier. They were drawn on Saturday 22 August 2026.

The 3x on Saturday matters if you bought the Power Play option: it tripled every prize below the jackpot, so a $100 win paid $300 and a $50,000 win paid $150,000. It does not touch the jackpot, and the Match 5 prize is capped at $2 million with Power Play no matter which multiplier lands.

Is there a Powerball drawing today?

Only if today is a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday. Those are the three drawing nights, all at 10:59 pm ET, which means that for four days out of seven the honest answer to “today’s results” is that they are still Saturday’s, Monday’s or Wednesday’s.

This page was written on a Sunday, so the most recent result is the Saturday one above and the next drawing is Monday.

Was there a Powerball jackpot winner on Saturday?

No — and the two tiers below it went unclaimed as well. Powerball’s own results page lists “None” against all three of the headline categories for 22 August.

• Jackpot — no winners
• Match 5 + Power Play, $2 million — no winners
• Match 5, $1 million — no winners

That is an unusually empty board. Saturday’s jackpot stood at $69 million with a cash value of $29.7 million, and none of it went out.

When is the next Powerball drawing?

Monday 24 August at 10:59 pm ET, with an estimated jackpot of $81 million. The cash value — what a single winner would actually take if they chose the lump sum instead of the 30-year annuity — is $34.8 million.

That gap between $81 million and $34.8 million is the part people misread most often. The advertised figure is the annuity total paid out over three decades; the cash option is roughly 43% of it before any tax is withheld.

Who won the last Powerball jackpot?

A single ticket in Illinois, on 12 August, for $1.04 billion. It is one of the largest prizes in the game’s history, and it is why the current jackpot is starting again from a low base.

The numbers that night were 4, 26, 66, 67 and 69 with a Powerball of 9. The cash value of that jackpot was $450.5 million. Two other tiers paid out on the same drawing: a Match 5 with Power Play worth $2 million in Massachusetts, and four $1 million tickets, in Arizona, California, Florida and North Carolina.

How many times has the jackpot rolled over since?

Four, and Monday’s drawing will be the fifth. After the Illinois win the jackpot reset to $22 million, and it has climbed with every unclaimed drawing since.

The smaller prizes have not been as dry. A $1 million Match 5 ticket was sold in Florida on 17 August, which is the only top-three-tier win anywhere in the current run.

Look a little further back and the pattern is normal rather than ominous. The 12 August drawing that produced the Illinois jackpot also paid $1 million in Arizona, California, Florida and North Carolina, plus $2 million in Massachusetts on a Power Play ticket. Two days earlier there were million-dollar tickets in California and Maryland; on 8 August, in Arizona, Florida, Michigan and New York. Four consecutive drawings without a single Match 5 anywhere is the unusual part, not the absence of a jackpot winner.

How does the Power Play multiplier work?

It is drawn separately from the numbers, and on Monday the 10x is in play. Power Play multiplies everything except the jackpot, and which multiplier you get is itself a random draw with published odds rather than something fixed for the night.

Powerball’s own chart gives the distribution as 2x on 24 of 43 outcomes, 3x on 13, 4x on 3, 5x on 2 and 10x on 1. So the modest multipliers do nearly all the work: better than half of all Power Play drawings return a doubling, and the 10x turns up about once in every 43.

The 10x is not always on the table. Powerball’s rule is that it “is only in play when the advertised jackpot is $150 million or less” — which, at $81 million, includes Monday. During the run-up to the Illinois billion it was unavailable, and the multiplier distribution shifts to the other published table, out of 42 instead of 43.

One ceiling to know about: the Match 5 prize does not scale. It is $1 million on its own and $2 million with Power Play, and the official chart shows $2 million in every multiplier column from 2x to 10x. Everything below Match 5 does multiply in full — that is where a 10x would turn $50,000 into $500,000.

What do you win for matching fewer numbers?

Nine combinations pay something, starting at $4 for matching the Powerball alone. You do not need any white balls at all to win the smallest prize.

Powerball’s own figure for winning any prize at all is 1 in 24.87, and that number is doing a lot of work: most of it is the two $4 tiers, which between them account for more than nine in every ten wins. A $2 ticket that returns $4 is the typical winning outcome.

The jackpot line is worth sitting with for a moment. One in 292 million is not a long shot in the ordinary sense of the phrase — it is a number with no useful intuition attached to it, and no way of choosing numbers changes it. Every combination, including the one that came up on Saturday, has exactly the same chance next time.

If you want to check a ticket, the official results are on powerball.com , and the same site carries the operator’s play-responsibly guidance.

One last thing worth knowing before you compare a ticket against any website, including this one. The Multi-State Lottery Association’s own notice says that the official winning numbers are the ones selected in the drawing and recorded under the observation of an independent accounting firm, and that where there is any discrepancy, the official drawing results prevail. Tickets also have to be redeemed in the state or jurisdiction where they were bought.