The Powerball jackpot climbed to $68 million for Saturday, Aug. 22, giving ticket holders a bigger prize to chase after three straight rollovers since the Aug. 15 drawing. The cash option stood at $29.5 million.
That number is what readers are looking for now, because the next drawing was set for Saturday and the jackpot had already been moving upward through August. The climb followed the Wednesday, Aug. 19 drawing, when the winning numbers were 10-21-58-61-64 and the Powerball was 17, with Power Play set at 2x and no second-tier wins.
The most recent rollovers sit on top of a bigger August run. On Monday, Aug. 17, the winning numbers were 8-15-25-49-65 and the Powerball was 22, with Power Play at 4x. That drawing produced a Florida ticket that matched five numbers for a $1 million prize. The prior Saturday, Aug. 15 drawing reset the jackpot to $20 million after the huge payout cycle that began when a winner in Illinois matched all the numbers in the Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026 drawing.
That Aug. 12 win pushed the jackpot to $1.04 billion after final ticket sales, with a cash option of $450.5 million. The winning numbers were 4-26-66-67-69 and the Powerball was 9, and Power Play was 2x. The Illinois Lottery said the winning ticket was bought in Quincy, Illinois, while Powerball and Illinois Lottery online still listed the $1.04 billion prize as unclaimed as of Wednesday, Aug. 19.
There was more than one second-tier story in that drawing, too. A Florida ticket was one of four that matched five numbers for $1 million prizes, and a Massachusetts ticket matched five plus the Power Play for a $2 million prize. The Florida winner bought the ticket at Racetrac at 2335 Cleveland Ave., Fort Myers, Florida, then claimed the cash option days later and lives in Cape Coral, Florida.
Florida also had a winner on Saturday, Aug. 8, when the numbers were 5-9-35-54-63 and the Powerball was 7, with Power Play at 3x. A Florida ticket and three others purchased in Arizona, Michigan and New York matched five numbers for $1 million prizes, and a ticket bought in Texas matched five plus the Power Play for a $2 million prize. Circle K at 1026 Walt Williams Road, Lakeland, Florida, sold one of the $1 million tickets, and that ticket holder had claimed a one-time lump sum cash prize by Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026.
What happened next was simple: the Saturday, Aug. 22 drawing would decide whether the jackpot was hit or pushed even higher. The August run had already produced a billion-dollar winner, several million-dollar tickets and another rollover, so the only thing the number could do on Saturday was pay out or grow again.
