The Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s drawing was estimated at $119 million, with a $51.6 million cash option attached to the prize. Players checking the August 29, 2026 Powerball results were waiting to see whether the top prize had finally been hit again.
The drawing mattered because the jackpot had last been won on Aug. 12, when a lottery player from Illinois took home a $1.04 billion prize. That win reset the game’s top number, and by Saturday night the jackpot had climbed back into nine figures as tickets were sold across the places where Powerball is offered.
Powerball drawings are held three times a week on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. ET, and Monday drawings were added in 2021. The game costs $2 to play, with an extra $1 for Power Play, which can multiply some non-jackpot prizes up to five times and can reach 10x when the jackpot is below $150 million.
The rules are simple enough, even if the odds are not. Players pick five numbers from 1 to 69 and one red Powerball from 1 to 26. A jackpot win requires matching all six balls, while smaller prizes can start at $4 for matching the Powerball and rise to $1 million for matching all five white balls, except in California.
What readers wanted most on Saturday was the winning numbers, and the notice tied to the drawing pointed to them, but the numbers themselves were not included in the text available here. That leaves the central question unanswered for now: whether anyone matched all six balls and turned a $119 million estimate into a fresh winner.
The next chance comes with Monday’s drawing at 10:59 p.m. ET, when the cycle starts again for players in 45 states plus Washington DC, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the United Kingdom.
