The next Powerball drawing will take place on Monday, Aug. 10, after no ticket matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing. The jackpot has climbed to an estimated $905 million, with a cash value of $391.9 million.
The winning numbers were 5, 9, 35, 54 and 63, with a Powerball of 7, but the top prize rolled over again. That leaves the game’s next drawing as the thing players are waiting on now, with the jackpot already standing as the eighth-largest Powerball total ever.
That is the kind of number that keeps people checking the calendar, because the prize is now far beyond the scale of an ordinary lottery payout. Edwin Castro, who won the $2.04 billion California ticket in November 2022, remains tied to the biggest jackpot ever sold, while the current pool is still chasing history of its own.
There is another detail that makes the climb more striking. The jackpot was last won on May 2, and there have now been 41 unsuccessful drawings since then. A $1 million winner in Ohio matched all five white balls in Wednesday's drawing, but no one hit the jackpot, so the prize kept rising from an estimated $863.8 million before Saturday's results pushed it higher.
For players, the question now is not whether the prize is large enough to draw attention. It already is. The sharper issue is what happens if Monday's drawing produces a winner, because even the largest lottery jackpots have limits in practice: no jackpot has ever crossed the $1 billion mark for a lump-sum payment. Powerball tickets also began being sold in the U.K. on July 21, adding a new wrinkle to the field of players watching the next draw.
So the answer for anyone checking the clock is simple: the next Powerball drawing is Monday, Aug. 10, with a $905 million jackpot on the line. The waiting ends then, unless the numbers roll over again.
