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A ticket in Arkansas matched the profitable numbers drawn on Christmas Eve for the Powerball’s $1.817 billion jackpot.
The grand prize has an estimated money worth of $834.9 million, the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever gained, in response to the lottery.
The biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. historical past was gained on Nov. 7, 2022, when a California ticket claimed a $2.04 billion prize.
The white balls drawn Wednesday had been 4, 25, 31, 52 and 59. The crimson Powerball was 19 and the Energy Play was 2X.
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A ticket in Arkansas matched the profitable numbers drawn for the Powerball’s $1.817 billion jackpot on Dec. 24, 2025. (Reuters/Andrew Kelly / Reuters)
“Congratulations to the latest Powerball jackpot winner! That is actually a unprecedented, life-changing prize,” Matt Strawn, Powerball Product Group Chair and Iowa Lottery CEO, stated in a press release. “We additionally need to thank all of the gamers who joined on this jackpot streak – each ticket bought helps help public packages and companies throughout the nation.”
The winner can have the selection between an annuitized prize of $1.817 billion or a lump sum cost price $834.9 million. If a winner selects the annuity possibility, they may obtain one quick cost adopted by 29 annual funds that improve by 5% annually.
Each prize choices are earlier than taxes.
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A Powerball ticket bought in Arkansas matched all six numbers drawn Wednesday evening to win the $1.817 billion jackpot. (Brandon Bell/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
Along with the jackpot winner, eight gamers gained $1 million by matching all 5 white balls. There have been additionally 114 tickets that gained $50,000 prizes and 31 tickets that gained $100,000 prizes.
Wednesday’s win marked simply the second time a Powerball jackpot ticket has been bought in Arkansas, with the primary coming in 2010.
The Powerball jackpot was final gained on Sept. 6, when two tickets in Missouri and Texas break up a $1.787 billion prize.
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A Powerball ticket bought in Arkansas claimed the sport’s $1.817 billion jackpot, the second-largest lottery prize ever gained within the U.S. (William Thomas Cain/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
The jackpot will reset to $20 million, with the following drawing on Saturday.
The percentages of profitable the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
