No winners in $863.8 million Powerball drawing as jackpot climbs to $905 million
Saturday's Powerball drawing for an estimated $863.8 million produced no jackpot winner, pushing Monday's prize to $905 million and making it the eighth-largest Powerball jackpot ever.
Intelligence analysis by Llama
The estimated $863.8 million Powerball jackpot went unclaimed Saturday, sending the next drawing's prize to $905 million. It now ranks as the eighth-largest Powerball jackpot in history and the first to include U.K. participants, with ticket sales there having begun July 21.
Imagine everyone in the country, plus some people across an ocean in England, all buying tickets for the same giant prize drawing. Nobody had the right numbers this time, so the prize gets even bigger for the next drawing on Monday — about $905 million, the eighth-biggest Powerball prize ever.
Analysis
Stephen Durrell's top-10 threshold
Stephen Durrell, who chairs the Powerball Product Group and serves as executive director of the Kansas Lottery, framed Saturday's $863.8 million drawing as a moment when player interest historically spikes. "Entering the top 10 largest Powerball jackpots is when we historically see a lot of players join in the game," he said in a statement. With the next drawing crossing into the $905 million range, the lottery is now firmly in the tier where casual buyers tend to convert into ticket purchasers — a pattern the multi-state consortium will be watching as it gauges revenue effects from the U.K. launch.
Edwin Castro's $2.04 billion benchmark
The all-time reference point remains the $2.04 billion ticket sold in California in November 2022, claimed by Edwin Castro — a figure that still anchors how every subsequent jackpot is described. Saturday's drawing at $863.8 million was the eighth-largest Powerball jackpot on record and the 16th-largest lottery prize in U.S. history when Mega Millions drawings are included, according to Powerball. The article underscores an overlooked detail of that 2022 record: even a winning ticket taken as a lump sum was worth "only" $997.6 million, meaning no player in U.S. history has ever received a billion-dollar lump-sum payout. The current drawing needs to crack the $1 billion headline mark to crack into the all-time top seven.
The U.K. addition
This jackpot carries a structural first: it is the first drawn with active ticket sales in the United Kingdom, where Powerball sales began on July 21. The expansion adds a new participant pool alongside the existing 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Powerball's own framing suggests jackpots will now grow faster between wins because of the larger player base. Forty-one consecutive drawings have failed to produce a jackpot winner since May 2 — a long drought that, combined with the U.K. launch, has accelerated the prize's climb toward the $1 billion headline threshold ahead of Monday's draw.
Key points
- Saturday's winning numbers were 5, 9, 35, 54, 63 with a Powerball of 7, and no ticket matched all six.
- Monday's estimated jackpot is $905 million, with a cash value of $391.9 million.
- This is the eighth-largest Powerball jackpot of all time and the 16th-largest U.S. lottery prize including Mega Millions.
- It is the first jackpot drawn with U.K. participants, after Powerball ticket sales there began on July 21.
- The jackpot has gone unclaimed for 41 consecutive drawings since it was last won on May 2.
If a single ticket-holder matches Monday's draw, the prize will be claimed at a level last seen only a handful of times in U.S. lottery history. From Powerball's perspective, the top-10 interest bump Durrell described should translate into a measurable lift in ticket sales ahead of Monday's drawing.
Another draw could go unclaimed, with 42 or more consecutive failures keeping the prize on its current trajectory. Even at $905 million, the article notes the cash-value lump sum tops out near $391.9 million — a fraction of the headline figure that could disappoint players who do win.
