What Time Is the Powerball Drawing Tonight? The $793 Million Jackpot Is Drawn at 10:59 P.M. in Tallahassee
The Powerball jackpot stands at an estimated $793 million, with a $339.9 million cash option, for tonight's 10:59 p.m. Eastern drawing - and like every Powerball drawing, it happens at the Florida Lottery's draw studio in Tallahassee.
Tonight's Powerball drawing is worth an estimated $793 million. USA Today and the USA TODAY Network's Delaware Online, both read by the Florida Desk this run, put the jackpot at $793 million with a cash option of $339.9 million for the Monday, November 2 drawing at 10:59 p.m. Eastern - the 10th-largest Powerball jackpot ever, according to the NorthJersey.com file read this run.
The prize is on the table because no ticket matched all six numbers in Saturday's Halloween drawing. The winning numbers on October 31 were 2, 4, 18, 50 and 56, with a Powerball of 20 and a Power Play multiplier of 3x. Three tickets did match all five white balls for million-dollar prizes - a $2 million ticket in North Carolina and $1 million tickets in Georgia and the United Kingdom, the network files reported. The jackpot was last won on August 12, when a ticket sold in Illinois claimed an estimated $1.04 billion.
Florida's part in tonight is structural, and it is the reason a lottery drawing in a national game is a Florida story: Powerball drawings are held at the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee, the state's capital. The odds of matching all five white balls plus the Powerball are 1 in 292,201,338. The desk will file the winning numbers after tonight's drawing; a ticket bought in Jacksonville should be checked against the official Florida Lottery results, not a summary.
