Powerball's $100 million jackpot remains unclaimed after Wednesday's draw

ORLANDO, FL — May 13, 2026

No ticket matched all six numbers in Wednesday's Powerball drawing, sending the jackpot rolling over to $115.4 million for the next draw on Saturday. The winning numbers were 22, 31, 52, 56, 67, and Powerball 15, with a 2x Power Play multiplier in effect.

The roll represents the fifth consecutive drawing without a grand-prize winner — a modest streak by recent standards, but enough to push the jackpot past the century mark. Powerball has seen far longer dry spells: the 39-draw rollover sequence that ended in March 2025 generated a $842 million jackpot, and the historic 41-draw streak of 2022 culminated in a $1.586 billion annuity jackpot. Still, a nine-figure number carries its own weight. Players are now chasing a prize larger than the median price of a home in most U.S. metros.

The numbers and their position in the game's distribution

The five white balls drawn — 22, 31, 52, 56, 67 — clustered toward the upper half of the 69-number pool, with three of five falling in the 50-69 range. The Powerball selection of 15 fell in the lower-middle tier of the 1-26 ball set. This distribution is statistically unremarkable; Powerball drawings produce no predictable clustering pattern.

What merits noting is the spacing. The gaps between consecutive white balls were 9, 21, 4, and 11 — a relatively narrow sequence. The largest single gap (21 numbers between 31 and 52) was neither exceptional nor rare. Over thousands of historical Powerball drawings, gaps of this magnitude occur regularly enough that no player should adjust their number selection based on this week's spacing alone.

The 2x Power Play multiplier applied to non-jackpot prizes, which means secondary-tier winners — those matching five white balls without the Powerball, for instance — saw their prizes doubled. A five-ball match ordinarily pays $1 million in the annuity form; with 2x multiplied, that climbed to $2 million. Powerball randomly assigns the multiplier from a pool weighted toward lower multipliers (2x and 3x appear most often; 5x and 10x less so), a design choice that keeps variance in secondary prize pools manageable for lottery operators.

Why the jackpot keeps rolling

Five consecutive rollovers might seem like a drought, but the math explains it plainly. The odds of matching all six numbers in Powerball are 1 in 292,201,338 — worse than a player's chance of being dealt a perfect bridge hand twice in a lifetime. With roughly 10 to 15 million Powerball tickets sold per drawing nationwide (figures vary by rollover magnitude and media hype), the probability of a jackpot winner any given night remains well below 5 percent.

"The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million," the Powerball Product Group stated in its official game rules. "This means that across all drawings, rollovers are expected; they are not anomalies, but ordinary outcomes of the game's mathematical structure."

That statement, while dry, cuts to the core. Powerball was engineered in 2015 (and again adjusted in 2022) to generate larger, more frequently-rolled jackpots precisely because players respond to large numbers. A $100 million prize is news. A $20 million reset is routine. Lottery commissions know this; they set odds and prize structures accordingly.

The five-draw streak falls well short of notable historical thresholds. The longest recent rollover sequence before this year was a 32-draw streak in early 2024 that crested at $487 million. The 39-draw sequence earlier in 2025 generated a $842 million annuity jackpot — or roughly $435 million cash — before a single winner in Minnesota claimed it in late March. By that measure, Wednesday's result is unremarkable. The odds have not shifted. The game has not changed. Randomness, as always, has simply done its job.

What Saturday's drawing looks like

The next Powerball draw is scheduled for Saturday, May 17, at 10:59 PM ET. The jackpot will advertise at $115.4 million, with a cash-value option of roughly $58.3 million (the precise cash amount depends on the interest-rate environment at the time of claim, so lottery officials typically announce the exact figure a day or two before the drawing).

Saturday draws historically attract higher ticket sales than Wednesday or Monday draws — a weekend-play phenomenon that state lotteries have documented for decades. This week's rollover will likely amplify that effect. Sales may push toward 12 to 16 million tickets, compared to the 9 to 11 million typical of a non-rollover Wednesday night.

Ticket sales directly affect state lottery funding. Every dollar a player spends generates a percentage that returns to the state's education or public-works budget; rising sales during rollover streaks mean outsized contributions to state coffers, even when no jackpot is hit. This dynamic creates a subtle structural incentive for lottery operators to tolerate (though not engineer) rollover sequences — they are genuinely beneficial to state revenue in the short term.

Buying in on a rollover: the odds reality

A player contemplating a larger spend on Saturday's draw should understand the odds math clearly. Buying ten tickets instead of one improves a player's chances from 1 in 292 million to roughly 1 in 29.2 million — a substantial-sounding improvement that is, in absolute terms, still vanishingly small. The probability remains so far beneath everyday human intuition that the comparison breaks down. A driver's chance of a fatal car accident over a 40-year lifetime is roughly 1 in 100. A Powerball jackpot winner, by contrast, is 2,920 times more unlikely than that.

A player should spend only what they can afford to lose without affecting rent, food, medical care, or savings. The size of the jackpot does not change this calculus.

Saturday's drawing will, statistically, almost certainly roll over again. One of six is a cruel ratio; Powerball was built around it. The next jackpot after Saturday will likely rest somewhere between $125 million and $150 million, barring a sudden winner. That is how the game functions.

Sources

• Powerball official game rules and odds: powerball.com/games/powerball
• Multi-State Lottery Association product specifications: musl.com/powerball
• Powerball historical jackpot records: powerball.com/results