The NC Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $905 million for Monday’s drawing after no ticket matched all the winning numbers on Saturday. The prize carries an estimated cash value of $391.1 million for a winner who takes the lump sum.
That is the kind of number that turns a routine drawing into a national search. Saturday’s numbers were 63, 9, 54, 5, 35 and the Powerball was 7, but no one had them all. Even so, four tickets matched all five white balls and each won $1 million, including one sold in New York.
The jump past $900 million matters because it pushes the next drawing into a tier that few lotteries ever reach. Powerball is played in 45 U.S. states and Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, with drawings on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Players pick five white-ball numbers from 1 to 69 and one red Powerball number from 1 to 26, a setup that keeps the odds of winning the jackpot at 1 in 292.2 million.
The latest rollover also comes after a long stretch without a jackpot winner. The prize was last won on May 2, 2026, when two tickets in Florida and Texas split a $20 million jackpot. Since then, the pool has kept growing each time no ticket matched all six numbers, and the game’s broader reach has helped make the next jackpot larger still.
One detail keeps the story from feeling entirely clean: the Saturday draw did not produce a jackpot winner, but it still sent four players home millionaires. That is the split-screen reality of Powerball, where a near miss can leave the top prize untouched while still producing life-changing payouts for a few tickets in the lower tier.
Monday’s drawing is now the one to watch. At $905 million, with a $391.1 million cash option, it is the largest Powerball jackpot since a $1.817 billion prize was won in Arkansas on Christmas Eve 2025, and the next result will decide whether the rollovers keep climbing or the sequence ends with one ticket.
