Powerball Jackpot Is $793 Million for Monday Night's Drawing — New Jersey Players, Check the Halloween Tickets First
No ticket matched 2, 4, 18, 50, 56 and Powerball 20 on Saturday night, so the jackpot rolled to $793 million for Monday at 10:59 p.m. The cash option is $339.9 million, and the run has been building since August 12.
The Powerball jackpot New Jersey players were checking on Sunday morning is the one they will be playing for on Monday night. No ticket matched all six numbers in Saturday's Halloween drawing — the winning numbers were 2, 4, 18, 50 and 56, with the red Powerball 20 and a Power Play of 3x — so the jackpot rolled to an estimated $793 million for Monday's drawing, with a cash option of $339.9 million, according to the Powerball figures reported by USA TODAY and read by this desk.
The scale of the run is the story behind the number. The jackpot has been growing since August 12, when a ticket sold in Illinois claimed an estimated $1.04 billion. Saturday's prize, advertised at $760 million for most of the week, was pushed to $770 million by late ticket sales and still produced no jackpot winner. No New Jersey jackpot winner was reported in any source read by this desk; the first errand for anyone holding a Halloween ticket is to check it against 2-4-18-50-56 and Powerball 20 before Monday's line forms.
Monday's drawing is at 10:59 p.m. Eastern. A ticket costs $2, and the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million — figures this desk prints in every jackpot story, because they are part of the story. A Monday winner would choose between the $793 million annuity and the $339.9 million cash option, both before taxes.
