No ticket matched all six numbers in Monday night's Powerball drawing, so the jackpot climbs to an estimated $835 million for Wednesday, Nov. 4, with a cash value of $357.9 million, Powerball's site shows. Monday's prize ended at an estimated $804 million, up from the $793 million advertised earlier in the day.
The winning numbers for Monday, Nov. 2, were 7, 23, 29, 64 and 66, with a Powerball of 23 and a 4x Power Play. One ticket sold in Delaware matched all five white balls for a $1 million prize. No ticket matched five with the Power Play.
How the jackpot got this big
Nobody won Saturday. Through that drawing, no ticket had matched all six numbers since Aug. 12, when a single ticket sold in Illinois won $1.04 billion. Saturday's was the 34th drawing in the run, Powerball said, which made Monday's the 35th.
This is also the first jackpot run that players in the United Kingdom have paid into from the start. Powerball is sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the U.K., and every ticket adds to the same prize pool. A U.K. winner would receive the cash value, paid over 30 years through The UK National Lottery.
Annuity or cash
A U.S. jackpot winner can take an annuity of 30 payments over 29 years, each one larger than the last, or a single lump-sum payment, and both figures are before taxes. For Wednesday's drawing, the cash option is an estimated $357.9 million. A $2 ticket has a 1 in 292.2 million chance of hitting the jackpot, according to the game's prize chart, and a 1 in 24.87 chance of winning any prize. Drawings are held Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. Eastern, which is 7:59 p.m. Pacific.
