No Powerball Winner Monday Night — the Jackpot Rolls to an Estimated $562 Million for Wednesday

By Previously Staff, Previously

October 13, 2026

The numbers 22, 28, 38, 51 and 69 with Powerball 9 produced no jackpot winner on Monday, October 12, so one of the biggest prizes in America keeps climbing toward Wednesday's drawing.

Check the ticket on the fridge one more time, because nobody is cashing the big one. Monday night's Powerball drawing — 22, 28, 38, 51 and 69, with the red Powerball 9 and a 3x Power Play multiplier — produced no jackpot winner, the Asbury Park Press reported, and the prize that has been building since the middle of August rolls again. Post-draw reports put the jackpot for Wednesday, October 14 at an estimated $562 million, with a cash option of $230.4 million, which would make it one of the largest lottery prizes offered in the United States this year.

The Numbers, and What They Paid

Monday's jackpot was estimated at $541 million with a cash value of $221.7 million before the drawing, according to Powerball figures reported by the Asbury Park Press and the Democrat and Chronicle, after earlier estimates during the day had put it between $535 million and $538 million. The five white balls came up 22, 28, 38, 51 and 69, and the Powerball was 9. Anyone holding a ticket that matched the Powerball alone still wins $4, and the Power Play multiplier of 3x tripled non-jackpot prizes for players who paid the extra dollar — turning the standard $50,000 four-plus-Powerball prize into $150,000 for Power Play ticket holders in the reported prize tiers.

The rollover is the story, though. A jackpot this size changes the rhythm of convenience stores across the 45 states, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the game is sold. Lines form at lunch. Office pools reorganize. And in Las Vegas — a city built on games of chance that famously has no state lottery — the drawing still lands, because Nevada players who want in make the familiar drive to border retailers in California and Arizona. Monday's miss means that whole cycle runs again, bigger, on Wednesday.

Twenty-Six Drawings Without a Winner

The current run began after August 12, when a single ticket sold in Illinois won a $1.04 billion jackpot, according to Powerball results reported across the USA Today Network. The jackpot reset to $20 million on August 15 and has rolled ever since — 25 rollovers through Saturday's drawing, TCPalm reported, with Monday's miss extending the streak further. Saturday's numbers, for the record, were 1, 4, 19, 33 and 51 with Powerball 15 and a 2x Power Play, and they produced no jackpot winner either.

That is how Powerball jackpots get enormous: not through any single night's sales, but through accumulation. Each drawing without a six-number match pushes the advertised prize higher, higher prizes sell more tickets, and more tickets still usually fail to produce a winner because the odds of matching all six numbers sit at 1 in 292.2 million, a figure every lottery story repeats because it never stops being true. Millions of combinations get sold; the winning one, most nights, is not among them.

The Lower Tiers Still Paid Out

A rollover headline does not mean a winless night. Matching all five white balls without the Powerball pays $1 million in most jurisdictions, and Powerball's published prize structure pays out across nine tiers, down to the $4 prize for matching the Powerball alone. With a 3x Power Play in effect, every non-jackpot tier for Power Play players was tripled on Monday night, which is how a four-white-balls-plus-Powerball ticket became worth $150,000 instead of $50,000.

The practical advice is the same after every big drawing, and it bears repeating because unclaimed prizes are a real phenomenon after rollovers: check the whole ticket, not just the jackpot line. Tickets that matched five numbers are worth life-changing money to most people even when they are not the headline, and every state lottery sets its own claim deadlines and procedures. In New Jersey, for example, prizes above $599.99 are claimed through the state lottery by mail or in person, the Asbury Park Press noted, while smaller prizes are redeemed at retailers.

What Wednesday Looks Like Now

The next drawing is Wednesday, October 14, at 10:59 p.m. Eastern, the regular slot in Powerball's Monday-Wednesday-Saturday schedule — Monday drawings were only added in 2021. Ticket cutoffs vary by state, generally falling between 9:45 p.m. and 10 p.m. Eastern on drawing night. Post-draw reports estimated the Wednesday jackpot at $562 million annuity, or $230.4 million cash, and that number will likely be revised upward again before the drawing if sales run hot, as they tend to do once a jackpot passes the half-billion mark.

There is also a second large prize in the market competing for the same dollars: the Mega Millions jackpot stood at $385 million with a cash option of $154.8 million, according to the North Jersey Record's lottery coverage. Two jackpots above $300 million at once is the kind of week that turns occasional players into regulars, at least until one of them hits.

How to Think About a $562 Million Ticket

None of this changes the math, and the math deserves its paragraph. A $2 ticket buys a 1-in-292.2-million chance at the jackpot. The annuity figure — the $562 million headline — is paid over decades; the cash option, $230.4 million before taxes, is what most winners take and what the prize would actually be worth on day one. Federal and, in most states, state taxes come out of either. Financial advisers give the same counsel every cycle: sign the ticket, say nothing publicly until you have a lawyer and an accountant, and understand that the decision between annuity and cash is irrevocable.

But lotteries have never really sold math. They sell the two days between the purchase and the drawing, when the ticket in your wallet is briefly worth every plan you project onto it. Monday's numbers retired one set of those plans. Wednesday's drawing, at an estimated $562 million, is already selling the next set — and if nobody hits it either, Saturday's will be bigger still. The full rundown of the night's other stories is in our Tuesday news wrap, and more coverage is always on the Previously news front.