Powerball's $793 Million Monday Drawing Is the 10th-Largest Ever - and Three Tickets Still Won a Million or More

Nobody won the big one on Halloween, but Saturday's Powerball drawing was not a total loss for everyone holding a ticket. Three tickets matched all five white balls and missed only the Powerball, according to USA TODAY's report of the drawing: a North Carolina ticket bought with the Power Play option is worth $2 million, and tickets sold in Georgia and in the United Kingdom - where Powerball went on sale in July - are worth $1 million each. The numbers drawn Saturday were 2, 4, 18, 50 and 56, with the Powerball 20.

The jackpot those tickets missed is now the story. Monday's drawing is worth an estimated $793 million, with a cash value of $339.9 million - the 10th-largest Powerball jackpot ever offered and the 20th-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, ahead of the $768.4 million a Wisconsin ticket won in 2019. The run has been building since August 12, when a ticket sold in Illinois claimed an estimated $1.04 billion; Monday will be the next drawing in a streak that has now rolled through Halloween.

The drawing itself happens in Florida. Powerball drawings are broadcast from the Florida Lottery's draw studio in Tallahassee, and Monday's is set for about 10:59 p.m. Eastern. Tickets cost $2, the game is played in 45 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the odds of matching all six numbers remain 1 in 292.2 million - the figure worth remembering at the counter, whatever the jackpot says on the sign.