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The Powerball jackpot finally made the list.
Wednesday’s drawing is worth an estimated $835 million, or $357.9 million in cash, according to Powerball. If someone hits it, it goes down as the 10th-largest jackpot in the game’s history.
The numbers will be drawn at 10:59 p.m. EST. (Daylight saving time ended Sunday, so it’s EST now.)
Nobody won Monday. The winning numbers were 7, 23, 29, 64 and 66, with a Powerball of 23. One ticket sold in Delaware matched all five white balls for $1 million.
That makes 35 straight drawings without a jackpot winner since an Illinois ticket won $1.04 billion on Aug. 12. Wednesday is No. 36.
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Tenth. For now.
A week ago, at $716 million, it was still on the outside looking in. Since then, it has passed the $768.4 million jackpot won in Wisconsin in 2019, which used to hold the last spot.
Here’s the list it just joined:
- $2.04 billion, Nov. 7, 2022, California
- $1.817 billion, Dec. 24, 2025, Arkansas
- $1.787 billion, Sept. 6, 2025, Missouri and Texas
- $1.765 billion, Oct. 11, 2023, California
- $1.586 billion, Jan. 13, 2016, California, Florida and Tennessee
- $1.326 billion, April 6, 2024, Oregon
- $1.08 billion, July 19, 2023, California
- $1.04 billion, Aug. 12, 2026, Illinois
- $842.4 million, Jan. 1, 2024, Michigan
- $835 million (estimated), Nov. 4, 2026
Next up is Michigan’s New Year’s Day jackpot. Wednesday’s estimate is $7.4 million short of it. If nobody wins tonight, Saturday’s drawing goes after No. 9.
It’s already the second-biggest Powerball prize of 2026. Only the Illinois billion is ahead of it.
What are the most common Powerball numbers?
The New York Lottery publishes every Powerball result, and the count below starts Oct. 7, 2015, when the game moved to its current format: five white balls from 1 to 69 and a red Powerball from 1 to 26. Through Monday, that’s 1,428 drawings.
The white balls drawn most often:
No. 21 leads at 128 times. Then 61 and 64, tied at 126. Then 28 at 121, and 23 and 32 tied at 120.
Monday’s drawing fed two of them. Both 64 and 23 came up, and 23 was the red ball, too.
On the red ball, 14 leads at 68 draws, followed by 4 at 66. The coldest white ball is 13, at 79. The coldest red ball is 16, at 40.
None of that carries into Wednesday. Spread evenly, each white ball would have come up about 103 times by now, and every one of them has the exact same shot tonight. Last week’s PlayUSA breakdown of the hot numbers gets into why.
Powerball jackpot odds versus other long shots
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. The odds of winning any prize are 1 in 24.87.
Some fresh ways to picture that 292.2 million.
Grab a coin. Call 28 flips in a row and get every one right. The odds of that are 1 in 268.4 million, which is still about 9% better than a Powerball ticket. Make it 29 straight, at 1 in 536.9 million, and the coin finally becomes the long shot.
So one ticket is a little worse than 28 perfect coin calls. Every drawing.
Golf has its own version. The National Hole-in-One Registry puts the odds of one player making two holes-in-one in the same round at 67 million to 1, according to the PGA of America. That’s more than four times likelier than the jackpot.
Then there are the things nobody wants. The Florida Museum’s International Shark Attack File puts the lifetime risk of dying in a shark incident at 1 in 4.3 million. That’s about 67 times higher than one ticket’s jackpot odds.
And lightning? The National Weather Service puts your odds of being struck over an 80-year lifetime at 1 in 15,300. About 19,000 times more likely than the jackpot.
The jackpot made the list this week. The odds didn’t move. Same 1 in 292.2 million as they were the day after Illinois won.
