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Did anyone win Powerball last night? Winning numbers, next drawing as jackpot nears $600 million – The Tennessean

Powerball’s jackpot continues to climb as no tickets matched the $570 million jackpot on Monday night.
The jackpot is nearing $600 million after the drawing on Nov. 17 did not result in any jackpot winners. One ticket sold in West Virginia won the $1 million Match 5 prize.
Here are the winning numbers for Monday night’s drawing.
The winning numbers for the Monday, Nov. 17, drawing are 7-33-50-57-66 with the Powerball being 23 and Power Play being 5x.
The next Powerball drawing is on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at approximately 10:59 p.m. ET/9:59 CT. Powerball has three drawings each week on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
The jackpot ahead of the Nov. 17 drawing has reached an estimated $570 million, with a lump sum payment estimated at $266.9 million, according to powerball.com.
The lotto numbers start to rise, and you dream of what you could do with all the winnings, but the chances of winning big are pretty slim.
The odds of winning a Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302.6 million.
The odds of winning a Powerball jackpot — no matter the size — are around 1 in 292.2 million.
Having Powerball or Mega Millions hit the $1 billion mark is no longer as uncommon as it once was.
In the last five years, there have been eight jackpots between Mega Millions and Powerball that have gone over the $1 billion mark. And three of those happened in 2023, and two occurred in 2024.
The highest lottery jackpot was won in November 2022, amounting to $2.04 billion. It was the second jackpot over $1 billion that year. Before that, the only other times a jackpot hit over a billion were in 2021, 2018 and 2016.
The latest jackpot has broken into the top 5 highest ever jackpots in the history of Powerball.
The Sept. 3 Powerball jackpot has also found a spot among the highest jackpots in U.S. lotteries. Here are the nation’s all-time top 10 Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots, according to powerball.com:
Jordan Green covers trending news for The Commercial Appeal. She can be reached at jordan.green@commercialappeal.com.

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