Powerball players get their next shot tonight, with the jackpot at an estimated $30 million for Monday’s draw — while the Mega Millions jackpot waits at $529 million for Tuesday, the biggest lottery prize on offer in the United States. The Powerball draw is at 10:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, November 9. Nobody won the jackpot on Saturday night, when the winning numbers were 3, 36, 37, 56 and 61, with Powerball 21 and a Power Play of 2x, according to the official results feed. There were 487,471 winning tickets in total across all prize tiers. The separate Double Play draw on the same ticket produced 11, 17, 26, 37 and 45, with Powerball 7. With the jackpot under $150 million, the 10X Power Play multiplier is in play, meaning a $2 ticket with Power Play can multiply non-jackpot prizes by up to ten times.
Mega Millions is the bigger prize
The bigger prize on offer is Mega Millions. Its jackpot stands at $529 million for Tuesday’s draw, November 10, at 11:00 p.m. Eastern, after no ticket matched all six numbers on Friday night. The cash value — the lump sum a winner would take instead of the annuity paid over 29 years — is $224.2 million, before tax, or about $141.2 million after federal taxes, according to one jackpot analysis. The rollover comes days after the Powerball jackpot was won. One ticket sold in New Jersey won the $847 million Powerball jackpot in the draw on Wednesday, November 4 — the ninth-largest Powerball jackpot ever — with the winning numbers 15, 34, 41, 53, 56 and Powerball 21. The winner can choose the $847 million annuity or $363.1 million in cash, before tax, and had not come forward as of November 5.
The odds, as ever
The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are about 1 in 302.6 million, and the odds of winning Powerball are about 1 in 292.2 million. Lottery officials remind players to sign the back of a winning ticket, keep it somewhere safe, and take independent financial and legal advice before claiming — advice that matters more than ever when the prize is over half a billion dollars. The two jackpots moving in opposite directions is a familiar pattern: a big win resets one game while the other keeps rolling. Mega Millions’ $529 million is now the biggest lottery prize on offer in the United States, and it has been climbing since the last win — with Tuesday’s draw the next chance to take it. Powerball players, meanwhile, get their next shot tonight, with the jackpot back up to $30 million after Saturday’s rollover.
