Powerball Winning Numbers: 2, 4, 18, 50, 56 and Powerball 20 — No Winner, and Monday's Jackpot Is $793 Million
Saturday's Halloween drawing produced no jackpot winner, so the prize New Jersey players will chase on Monday night climbs to an estimated $793 million, with a $339.9 million cash option.
Check the Halloween tickets. The winning numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing, October 31, were 2, 4, 18, 50 and 56, with the red Powerball 20 and a Power Play multiplier of 3x, according to the published results read by this desk. No ticket matched all six numbers, so a jackpot advertised at $760 million — and estimated at $770 million by drawing time — rolls on untouched.
The next drawing is Monday, November 2 at 10:59 p.m. Eastern, and it is a big one: an estimated $793 million, with a cash value of $339.9 million, per Powerball's published figures. The jackpot was last won on August 12, when a ticket sold in Illinois claimed an estimated $1.04 billion. One ticket did come close on Saturday — a North Carolina ticket that matched all five white balls with the Power Play was worth $2 million. No New Jersey jackpot or five-ball winner was reported in the coverage read by this desk.
The arithmetic of the chase has not changed: the odds of matching all five white balls plus the Powerball are 1 in 292,201,338, and a ticket costs $2. New Jersey players who bought for Saturday should check their numbers against the full line — 2, 4, 18, 50, 56 and Powerball 20 — because smaller prizes ride on partial matches, and the Power Play tripled non-jackpot winnings for players who bought it. Monday's drawing closes the weekend that also holds New Jersey's final day of early voting and the Jets at MetLife — a busy Monday follows it.
