A Powerball jackpot has swelled to $793 million, large enough to slip into the ranks of the ten biggest lottery prizes in American history. It grew because the October 31 Halloween drawing produced no top-prize winner, so the money rolled forward into the next Monday drawing, a quiet reminder that in this game a missed match is what keeps hope alive. Meanwhile, smaller fortunes were won in Ohio and North Carolina, showing how one drawing can scatter its rewards far beyond the single jackpot that captures attention.
Powerball Jackpot Climbs to $793 Million, Cracking the All-Time Top 10
A jackpot can sit unclaimed while ordinary fortunes land in towns across states.
Mark
So the headline is $793 million. Why does that number matter beyond being big?
Mimi
It puts this jackpot in the top 10 all-time in the US. That's a short list, and it's why several outlets are covering it at once.
Mark
How did it get this large?
Mimi
The Halloween drawing on October 31 had no jackpot winner, so the prize rolled over. Monday's drawing is the next chance for someone to win it.
Luke
Worth saying what we can't confirm there. The coverage I can see says it entered the top 10, but not where exactly, and not the cash-option value.
Mimi
Fair. The headline figure is solid. The ranking within the top 10 isn't specified.
Mark
There's also a Forbes piece about taxes. What does a winner actually keep?
Luke
The material only gives the headline, that it explains what a winner could take home after taxes. No figure is given, so I wouldn't put a number on it.
Mark
And the smaller winners?
Mimi
An Ohio ticket won $150,000, reported by WKYC, and a Cabarrus County, North Carolina ticket won $2 million, per the NC Education Lottery. Both came from the Halloween drawing.
Luke
We don't know who bought them or whether the prizes have been claimed. Those are open questions.
Mark
So what do we watch?
Mimi
Monday's drawing. Another rollover means the jackpot keeps growing.
El Pulso
- The Powerball jackpot has climbed to $793 million, pushing it into the top 10 of all-time lottery prizes.
- Nobody matched every number on October 31, so the top prize rolled over and swelled again.
- Outlets are racing to explain what a winner would actually keep after taxes, with Forbes leading the practical breakdown.
- A $150,000 Ohio ticket and a $2 million Cabarrus County win from the same drawing are drawing local attention.
- Everything now turns on Monday's drawing: another miss grows the prize further, while a single match would make the after-tax question very real.
A Powerball jackpot has swelled to $793 million, large enough to slip into the ranks of the ten biggest lottery prizes in American history. It grew because the October 31 Halloween drawing produced no top-prize winner, so the money rolled forward into the next Monday drawing, a quiet reminder that in this game a missed match is what keeps hope alive. Meanwhile, smaller fortunes were won in Ohio and North Carolina, showing how one drawing can scatter its rewards far beyond the single jackpot that captures attention.
The Powerball jackpot now stands at $793 million, enough to place it among the ten biggest lottery prizes in American history. That is the headline running across several outlets this week, and it is the part of the story the source material states most firmly.
The number follows the Halloween drawing on October 31, which produced no grand-prize winner. Because nobody matched all the numbers, the top prize rolled forward to Monday's drawing, whose numbers have already been published.
The Halloween drawing did produce winners, just not at the top. An Ohio ticket won $150,000, and a ticket sold in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, won $2 million. The source material does not say who bought either ticket or whether either prize has been claimed.
What comes next is straightforward. If Monday's drawing again produces no jackpot winner, the prize grows further. If someone matches all the numbers, the after-tax question becomes very real for one ticket holder.
The Powerball jackpot now stands at $793 million, a figure large enough to place it among the ten biggest lottery prizes in American history. That is the headline running across several outlets this week, and it is the part of the story the source material states most firmly.
The number arrives after the Halloween drawing on October 31, which produced no grand-prize winner. Because nobody matched all the numbers, the top prize rolled forward. The next drawing is Monday's, and outlets including Yahoo have already published the numbers for it.
Coverage of the jackpot has split into a few lanes. KTLA reported on the prize entering the all-time top 10. Forbes took the practical angle, laying out what a winner could actually take home after taxes. The source material gives only the headline framing of that piece, not its figures, so the exact after-tax amount is not something we can state here.
The Halloween drawing did produce winners, just not at the top. WKYC reported that an Ohio ticket hit a prize worth $150,000, and published the location where it was sold along with the October 31 winning numbers. In North Carolina, the NC Education Lottery reported that a ticket sold in Cabarrus County won $2 million in the same drawing.
Those smaller wins are a reminder of how the game is built. A single drawing can pay out in many tiers, and a jackpot can sit unclaimed while ordinary-sized fortunes land in towns across several states. The source material does not say who bought the Ohio or Cabarrus County tickets, and it does not say whether either prize has been claimed.
What the material also does not provide is the odds of winning, the cash-option value of the $793 million, or the exact rank the prize holds among the all-time jackpots beyond the fact that it is in the top 10. Those details sit in the full articles behind the headlines.
What comes next is straightforward: Monday's drawing. If it again produces no jackpot winner, the prize grows further and the climb up the all-time list continues. If someone matches all the numbers, the after-tax question that Forbes raised becomes very real for one ticket holder.
Citas Notables
Forbes framed its coverage around what a winner could take home after taxes.— Forbes headline, paraphrased
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