Powerball $23M Rolls On: 10 Straight Draws Breaks 2026's Record

Saturday night's draw 2616 pushed the Powerball rollover to ten consecutive draws — a new record for 2026 — with the jackpot climbing to $23 million.

Here's the full picture from the night, the streak that keeps growing, and what's next.

The Saturday 29 August result

• Powerball: not won — $23 million rolls to Wednesday 2 September
• Lotto Division 1: 3 winners, each taking $333,333 (the $1M pool split three ways)
• Strike Division 1: won! 3 players each took $333,333 (the $1M pool split three ways) — the first Strike top-prize win in several weeks
• Winning numbers: 2, 5, 20, 24, 25, 31 with Powerball 5 (Strike: 31, 25, 20, 2)

The record streak

Powerball has now rolled over ten times since 29 July — breaking the previous 2026 record of nine:

That tops the nine-draw runs from May (which ended with a single ticket winning $28.2 million) and now stands as the longest rollover streak of the year.

What Wednesday means

The Wednesday 2 September draw should advertise a jackpot around $25 million — the second-largest headline pool of 2026 after July's $35M run. If it rolls again:

• The streak moves to eleven draws — and the jackpot would be closing in on the year's biggest win: the Ashburton family's $28.2 million in June.

If it's won, someone takes home a sum bigger than every other Powerball payout in 2026.

The honest maths

Every ticket in that draw had a 1 in 38,383,800 chance of winning Powerball Division 1 (the old 10-ball odds — the current 14-ball game is 1 in 53.7 million), and each draw is independent — a ten-draw streak doesn't change the odds for Wednesday. What it does change is the size of the dream, and the number of players chasing it.

Play what you can comfortably afford, treat it as entertainment, and let the streak do the talking.