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Saturday came and went. Nobody won. That means tonight’s Powerball jackpot walks into the record books whether anyone claims it or not.
The Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $748 million for Monday night’s drawing after Saturday’s numbers left the grand prize untouched. The lump-sum cash option is estimated at $325.1 million in a single deposit.
The jackpot is the largest Powerball prize awarded so far in 2026 and now ranks among the biggest jackpots in the game’s history.
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Where the $748 million Powerball jackpot ranks
If a player wins Monday’s drawing at the current estimate, the jackpot would rank as the 11th-largest Powerball jackpot ever awarded, trailing the $754.6 million jackpot won in Washington in February 2023 and sitting ahead of the $731.1 million jackpot won in Maryland in January 2021.
Here’s the neighborhood it’s moving into:
| Rank | Amount | Date | State |
| 1 | $2.04 billion | Nov. 7, 2022 | California |
| 2 | $1.817 billion | Dec. 24, 2025 | Arkansas |
| 3 | $1.765 billion | Oct. 11, 2023 | California |
| 4 | $1.586 billion | Jan. 13, 2016 | CA / FL / TN |
| 5 | $1.326 billion | Apr. 7, 2024 | Oregon |
| 6 | $1.08 billion | Jul. 19, 2023 | California |
| 7 | $842.4 million | Jan. 1, 2024 | Michigan |
| 8 | $768.4 million | Mar. 27, 2019 | Wisconsin |
| 9 | $758.7 million | Aug. 23, 2017 | Massachusetts |
| 10 | $754.6 million | Feb. 6, 2023 | Washington |
One more rollover and it cracks the top 10. Two more and it’s chasing the $842.4 million that a Michigan lottery club called The Breakfast Club won on New Year’s Day 2024.
What happened with the Powerball on Saturday?
The winning numbers for the Aug. 1 drawing were 6, 17, 27, 48 and 50, with a red Powerball of 5 and a 3x Power Play multiplier. No ticket matched all six numbers to win the jackpot.
Plenty of people got close. A ticket in Virginia matched all five white balls and included Power Play, worth $2 million. Five more players matched all five without the multiplier for $1 million each — three in California, one in Maryland and one in Texas.
Six people woke up Sunday a millionaire and one red ball short. That’s a specific kind of morning.
The most-drawn Powerball numbers, for the ritual
Since Powerball adopted its current 69-white-ball and 26-red-ball format in October 2015, some numbers have appeared more often than others. However, lottery officials and statisticians consistently note that past results do not influence future drawings.
The white balls that have shown up most often are 21 (123 times), 61 (122), 64 (121), 28 (119) and 36 (117). On the red side, 4 and 14 are tied at 65 appearances each.
The loneliest balls: white 13 at 75 draws, red 16 at 40.
Now the part that has to go here. A perfectly even distribution would put each white ball at about 100 appearances and each red ball around 53. The spread above is what random draws actually look like over a decade — not a signal.
Ball 21 is not warm. Ball 13 is not owed anything. Play them because it’s fun, not because the math says so, because it doesn’t.
The odds, and some friendlier comparisons
Matching five white balls plus the Powerball is a 1-in-292.2 million shot. The odds of winning any Powerball prize are about 1 in 24.9. Some context for that number:
- A single spin of Megabucks, the Las Vegas progressive that has paid out some of the biggest slot jackpots in history, hits at roughly 1 in 49.8 million. That makes one $3 pull about six times likelier to change your life than one $2 Powerball ticket.
- Dying in a bus crash carries lifetime odds of about 1 in 94,242, according to the National Safety Council. You are somewhere around 3,100 times more likely to meet your end via city transit than to match all six.
- Getting struck by lightning sits near 1 in 15,300 over an 80-year life — roughly 19,000 times likelier than the jackpot.
None of which is an argument against a ticket.
It’s an argument for understanding exactly what the $2 buys: a genuinely tiny, genuinely real chance, and a few days of thinking about what you’d do with $325 million.
How to play Powerball before Monday night
Tickets are $2, plus $1 for Power Play, and are sold in 45 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
Players in a growing number of states can skip the counter and buy via the online lottery through vendors like Jackpocket, which purchase and store physical tickets on your behalf. Availability varies, so check what’s live where you are.
The drawing goes off at 10:59 p.m. ET Monday, Aug. 3. Sales close one to two hours before the drawing depending on your state, so 10:45 p.m. is not a plan.
Good luck out there.
