Ticket buyers across the country, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and, for the first time, the United Kingdom left Monday night's Powerball drawing without a grand-prize winner. The miss sends Wednesday's jackpot climbing to an estimated $975 million, keeping alive a winless run that stretches back to early spring.
Monday's Numbers and Why the Prize Stayed on the Table
The winning combination drawn Monday, Aug. 10, was 6, 37, 54, 55 and 64, with a Powerball of 10 and a Power Play multiplier of 3x, according to Powerball's official results. Going in, the jackpot stood at $905 million, a figure CBS News and lottery officials verified as the eighth-largest prize the game has ever offered, with a cash option of $391.9 million for a winner who skips the 30-year annuity. A separate regional report pegged the jackpot slightly higher, at $929.1 million, ahead of the draw — but that number conflicts with the figure Powerball's own site and multiple national outlets confirmed, so $905 million is treated as accurate here.
Stephen Durrell, chair of the Powerball Product Group and executive director of the Kansas Lottery, noted that jackpots this size tend to pull in more casual players, since "we historically see a lot of players join in the game" once a prize edges into the all-time top ten.
Smaller Wins Landed Even Without a Jackpot Winner
Monday's drawing wasn't a total shutout for ticket holders. One player in Tennessee matched five numbers and had added the Power Play option, turning what would have been a $1 million prize into $2 million. Separately, single tickets in California and Maryland each matched all five white balls to win $1 million apiece, per same-night results reporting. None of the three winners has been publicly identified, and there's no indication yet of whether any has come forward — states typically give winners a window measured in months to claim a prize, and claims are usually processed privately before any announcement.
The last time anyone hit all six Powerball numbers was May 2, when tickets sold in Florida and Texas split a comparatively modest $20 million jackpot, according to ABC13 Houston. Every drawing since has come up empty, and the prize has grown accordingly — a pattern that tends to snowball once a jackpot cracks the game's all-time top ten, drawing in players who otherwise skip the game. For scale: Powerball's biggest jackpot ever, a single $2.04 billion ticket, was claimed in California in November 2022, and the second-largest, at $1.817 billion, was won in Arkansas as recently as Dec. 24, 2025 — a reminder that prizes this large aren't purely historical curiosities.
A New Wrinkle: UK Players Are in the Pool Too
Powerball tickets are now sold in 45 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and, as of July 21, the United Kingdom, under a new partnership between the Multi-State Lottery Association and Allwyn UK, Powerball confirmed. Monday's chase for the $905 million prize marked the first time UK ticket buyers were competing for the same jackpot as U.S. players — a shift lottery officials expect will make future jackpots grow faster simply because more people are playing.
The expanding footprint matters for mainland Latino communities with ties to the island: Puerto Rico has produced Powerball winners before, including one of three tickets that split a $564 million jackpot in 2015 — with the Puerto Rico ticket holder collecting roughly a third of that total, not the full amount. More than half of every $2 ticket sold stays in the jurisdiction where it was bought, funding local public programs regardless of who eventually wins the grand prize.
Wednesday's Drawing, and the Billion-Dollar Question
With no winner Monday, the jackpot for Wednesday's drawing rises to an estimated $975 million, with a cash value of at least $422.3 million. If that prize also goes unclaimed, Saturday's drawing would push the estimate even closer to — or past — the $1 billion mark, a level Powerball has only reached a handful of times in its history.
A Powerball ticket costs $2, with an optional $1 Power Play add-on that can multiply non-jackpot prizes. Players pick five numbers from 1 to 69 and one Powerball number from 1 to 26; the overall chance of winning any prize sits around 1 in 24.9, while the odds of matching all six numbers for the jackpot are about 1 in 292.2 million. Drawings air live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. Eastern.
