Powerball Drawing For 08/24/19: Saturday Jackpot is $50 Million - Newsweek

The Powerball jackpot for 08/24/19 is $50 million. The Saturday night drawing will be shortly after 11 p.m.

This page can be bookmarked and refreshed to see if you hold the winning numbers. Tonight's 08/24/19 jackpot is estimated at $50 million, with a cash option of $35.7 million. The jackpot could increase if sales further lottery projections, according to officials.

Someone purchased a ticket in New York last Saturday to win the previous jackpot of $149 million? The Powerball reset at the $40 minimum to start the game over again this Wednesday..

Winning numbers from the 8/21/19 jackpot of $40 million this Wednesday were: 12-21-22-29-32

Powerball: 21

Power Play: 2x

There was no grand prize winner last Wednesday, but there was a ticket sold in Nebraska matched all five white balls and just missed the Powerball for the second prize of $1 million. Had the Power Play been purchased, their second-prize ticket would have been worth $2 million.

The odds of hitting the grand prize jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338, regardless of the jackpot size — according to Powerball's website.

Powerball is a multi-state lottery and one of America's two biggest lottery jackpot games. Jackpots start at $40 million, and other prizes pay from $1 million to $2 million or more with a Megaplier. Tickets are $2.

Saturday night we will post the Powerball 08/24/19 drawing payouts and tell if there was a winner and where that winner came from, if so.

Powerball tickets — Tickets shown for the Powerball lottery in Texas during June 2019. Photo by Scott McDonald/Newsweek

There are nine ways to win money during the Powerball. Just getting the powerball with no other numbers pays out $4, and even more if the power play is bought for an extra dollar. The same payout goes for one ball plus the powerball, and $7 is the payout for two correct numbers with the powerball, or three correct numbers and no powerball.

If all five white, numbered balls are chosen but the red powerball is not correct, then the payout is $1 million, with an even higher payout if the power play is chosen.

Here are the all-time top Powerball jackpot prizes

1. $1.586 billion (01/13/2016)

Winning tickets sold in California, Florida and Tennessee

2. $768.4 million (03/27/2019)

Single ticket sold in Wisconsin

3. $758.7 million (08/23/2017)

Single ticket sold in Massachusetts

4. $687.8 million (10/27/2018)

Two winning tickets were drawn, one sold in Iowa and one sold in New York.

5. $590.5 million (05/18/2013)

Single ticket sold in Florida

6. $587.5 million (11/28/2012)