Powerball Winning Numbers: One New Jersey Ticket Took the $847 Million Jackpot — and Saturday's Drawing Resets to $20 Million
The numbers North Texas players were checking Thursday are 15, 34, 41, 53 and 56, with Powerball 21. One ticket — sold in New Jersey, not Texas — matched all six to end the run at $847 million, the ninth-largest jackpot in the game's history. Saturday night's drawing starts over at $20 million.
The Powerball run is over. A single ticket matched all six numbers in Wednesday night's drawing — 15, 34, 41, 53, 56 and the red Powerball 21, with a 2x Power Play multiplier — to win the $847 million jackpot, USA TODAY reported from Powerball's announcement. The prize is the ninth-largest in the game's history, worth $363.1 million as a one-time cash payment before taxes. The New Jersey Lottery said the ticket was sold at a Wegmans Food Market in Montvale, New Jersey; the winner had not been publicly identified in the reports read this run.
For Texas players, the honest summary is a near-miss at every level: no ticket anywhere won the $2 million Match 5 + Power Play prize or the $1 million Match 5 prize either, USA TODAY reported, so the Wednesday drawing's money above the smaller tiers all sits with the one New Jersey ticket. Texans bought into the same run — the jackpot had stood at an estimated $793 million for Monday's drawing after no Halloween winner — and checked the same numbers on Thursday morning.
The game resets fast. The next drawing is Saturday, Nov. 7, at 10:59 p.m. ET — 9:59 p.m. Central — with the jackpot back at its $20 million starting estimate, and drawings continuing on the Monday-Wednesday-Saturday schedule. The odds of the jackpot do not change with the prize size: about 1 in 292.2 million per play, as Powerball's own figures put it. This desk prints the numbers and the reset as a service to the readers who played; it does not dress a $20 million restart up as a frenzy.
