What Time Is the Powerball Drawing Tonight? 10:59 P.M. in Tallahassee, With $793 Million on the Line
Tonight's Powerball drawing is at 10:59 p.m. Eastern, held as always at the Florida Lottery's draw studio in Tallahassee, and the jackpot stands at an estimated $793 million with a $339.9 million cash option. No ticket matched all six numbers on Halloween, so the prize rolls into its 35th drawing since the $1.04 billion Illinois win in August.
The question running through Florida's search boxes on Monday has a precise answer: the Powerball drawing is tonight, Monday, November 2, at 10:59 p.m. Eastern. The jackpot stands at an estimated $793 million as an annuity, with a cash option of $339.9 million, and the drawing happens where Powerball drawings always happen — at the Florida Lottery's draw studio in Tallahassee, which makes tonight's near-$800 million moment, formally, a Florida production watched by the whole country.
The prize got here the slow way. No ticket matched all six numbers in Saturday's Halloween drawing — the numbers were 2, 4, 18, 50 and 56, with a Powerball of 20 and a Power Play multiplier of 3x, in a drawing advertised at $770 million by the time it was held. The jackpot has been building since August 12, when a ticket sold in Quincy, Illinois claimed an estimated $1.04 billion; tonight is the 35th drawing since that win. That run has pushed the prize past the 10th-largest Powerball jackpot ever won — the $768.4 million taken by a Wisconsin ticket in 2019 — and into territory where a single matching ticket changes a family's history several times over.
The sober numbers belong in the story too. A ticket costs $2, and the odds of matching all five white balls plus the Powerball are 1 in 292.2 million; the advertised figure is an estimate until sales close and the lottery finalizes the drawing. A winner tonight chooses between the $793 million paid out over time and the $339.9 million cash option, both before taxes. For Orlando players, the practical details are the drawing time — 10:59 p.m. — and the cutoff at Florida retailers ahead of it. The numbers themselves will be filed by this desk tonight, after the balls drop in Tallahassee.
