1 very lucky Powerball players in Illinois has won the multistate lottery’s 1.0402 billion jackpot prize.
- The winning numbers: 4 – 26 – 66 – 67 – 69
- The lucky red ball: 9
- Power Play: 2X
There were 3 tickets (Arizona, Florida, North Carolina) worth $1,000,000; 1 ticket (Massachusetts) won $2,000,000 with Power Play; and 1 ticket (California) got $820,520.
70 tickets that won $50,000 prizes, 16 tickets won $100,000 (with Power Play).
Nationwide, the Powerball drawing produced more than 3,200,000 winning tickets, with players winning lower-tier cash prizes worth a combined $27.55 million.
These are the prize payouts for all states that play Powerball combined, along with the prize values for each prize tier, with and without the “Power Play” on Wed, Jan 21, 2026:
| Match | Winners | Prize | Power Play Winners | Power Play Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O O O O O | O | 1 | 1,040,200,000 USD | X | X |
| O O O O O | 4 | 1,000,000 USD | 1 | 2,000,000 USD |
| O O O O | O | 70 | 50,000 USD | 16 | 100,000 USD |
| O O O O | 1,643 | 100 USD | 425 | 200 USD |
| O O O | O | 4,076 | 100 USD | 983 | 200 USD |
| O O O | 102,634 | 7 USD | 26,831 | 14 USD |
| O O | O | 88,313 | 7 USD | 23,158 | 14 USD |
| O | O | 692,345 | 4 USD | 182,013 | 8 USD |
| | O | 1,684,081 | 4 USD | 445,306 | 8 USD |
Powerball is offered in 44 States, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Players select five white numbers from (1 to 69) and one red ball (1 to 26).
To win the Powerball jackpot a player must match all five white balls in any order and the red Powerball number. The odds of picking the correct Powerball grand prize numbers are one in 292,201,338, which doesn’t change even if more players buy tickets when the jackpot is enormous.
You have a better chance of winning the Powerball jackpot if you let the computer select your numbers, according to lottery officials. About 75 percent of winning tickets over the years had numbers picked by a computer.
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The Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s drawing rolls back to $20 million with a cash option of $8.7 million.
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