2026年8月8日 美国东部时间09:55:53 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：马克·奥斯本
如果你只会在强力球奖金突破纪录时才关注开奖，现在正是参与的时机。周六晚间的开奖奖金已增至今年最高：8.56亿美元。
对于选择一次性领取奖金的玩家而言，总金额约为3.707亿美元。当然，这两个数字均为税前金额。
这同时也是史上第八高的强力球奖金额度。要进入前七名，奖金必须突破10亿美元大关。若算上兆彩（Mega Millions）的奖金额度，周六的开奖将是美国历史上第十六高的彩票奖池。
“从历史数据来看，当强力球奖金跻身前十时，会有大量玩家加入游戏。”强力球产品集团主席、堪萨斯州彩票执行总监斯蒂芬·杜雷尔在一份声明中表示。
2025年8月25日，在加利福尼亚州霍桑，一名顾客手持强力球彩票号码单。帕特里克·T·法伦 摄 / 法新社 via 盖蒂图片社
史上最高的强力球奖金额度——同时也是史上最高的彩票奖金额度——是2022年11月在加利福尼亚州售出的一张20.4亿美元的中奖彩票。不过，从未有过一次性奖金突破10亿美元的开奖纪录。即便是2022年由埃德温·卡斯特罗中的那笔创纪录大奖，税前金额也“仅为”9.976亿美元。
本次奖池还有一项新变化：这将是首个不仅在美国45个州、华盛顿特区、波多黎各和美属维尔京群岛开售的彩票中奖案例，同时也是首次有英国民众参与的强力球头奖开奖。
英国自7月21日起开始销售强力球彩票，若本次无人中奖，随着新增玩家的加入，未来奖池的增长速度将会更快。
上一次强力球头奖被兑奖是在5月2日，此后已经有41轮开奖无人中奖。不过也诞生了不少小型赢家，包括在周三开奖中猜中全部5个白球号码、斩获100万美元奖金的俄亥俄州彩民。
本次开奖将于周六美国东部时间22:59举行。赢得头奖的概率高达1/292200000，令人望而却步。
Powerball grows to $856 million, largest drawing of the year
2026-08-08 09:55:53 EDT / CBS News
By Mark Osborne
If you only pay attention when the Powerball jackpot enters record territory, now is the time to play. The drawing on Saturday night has grown to the largest total of the year: $856 million.
For those who choose to take the lump sum, the total works out to $370.7 million. Of course, both of those numbers are before taxes.
This is also the eighth-largest Powerball jackpot of all-time. It will have to crack the milestone $1 billion mark to enter the top seven. When including Mega Millions jackpots, Saturday’s drawing is the 16th-largest in U.S. history.
“Entering the top 10 largest Powerball jackpots is when we historically see a lot of players join in the game,” Stephen Durrell, Powerball Product Group chair and Kansas Lottery executive director, said in a statement.
A customer holds a number slip for Powerball lottery tickets, in Hawthorne, Calif., on Aug. 25, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
The largest Powerball jackpot — and largest lottery jackpot period — ever won was a single $2.04 billion ticket sold in California in November 2022. However, no jackpot has ever crossed the $1 billion mark for a lump sum payment. Even that record drawing won by Edwin Castro back in 2022 was worth “only” $997.6 million.
There’s also a new wrinkle to this jackpot. It will be the first won by someone not just competing with 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands — it will also be the first jackpot won with people in the United Kingdom participating.
Powerball tickets began being sold in the U.K. on July 21, and, if no one wins, the jackpots should grow faster with the addition of more players.
The jackpot was last won on May 2. There have been 41 unsuccessful drawings since then. There have been plenty of smaller victories though, including a $1 million winner in Ohio for matching all five white balls in Wednesday’s drawing.
The drawing will take place on Saturday at 10:59 p.m. ET. The odds of winning the top prize are a daunting 1 in 292.2 million.
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