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A lucky player in Oregon had the first jackpot-winning Powerball ticket of 2025, winning a $328.5 million jackpot on Jan. 18.
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Ever think it's too hard to win a Mega Millions jackpot? Well your odds, ever so slightly, are about to improve as the "new era" of the lottery game kicks off this weekend.
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The Powerball jackpot for Saturday's drawing is $515 million. Three tickets matched five numbers in Wednesday's drawing, winning $1 million each. The last time the Powerball jackpot was won was on ...
The Powerball lottery jackpot was an estimated $30 million with a cash option of $13.9 million for Wednesday night's drawing The jackpot was last won on March 29 when a California lottery player ...
Monday's Powerball numbers are 12-41-44-52-64 and Powerball 25. The Power Play was 2x. Saturday's Powerball numbers were 7-11-21-53-61 and Powerball 2. The Power Play was 3x. There was a Powerball jackpot winner from California in Saturday's drawing and five Match 5 $1 million winners from Georgia, Ohio, Oregon and Texas.
“My heart just dropped,” she told lottery officials when she realized she had won. She said she used some of her favorite numbers to play and she plans to use her windfall to pay her bills. Butler was only one of three people to win $150,000 in that drawing, which was the second-highest prize won that night, Powerball results show.
NEW YORK, NY – Two New York Lottery players scored $50,000 each in the April 2 Powerball drawing, with winning tickets sold in Brooklyn and Hempstead, lottery
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SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio resident has claimed a Powerball prize worth $1 million from the drawing held on Jan. 25. The winning ticket was purchased at Gasgo Markets Inc., located at 13041 State Highway 16 N. in Helotes.
“I lost my mom and my dog within a short time frame. But, I had a dream just the other day,” the man told DC Lottery officials in an April 2 news release. “It told me I was going to be a millionaire.” Odds weren’t exactly in his favor. Winning $1 million — the second-best prize in Powerball — has lopsided odds of 1 in 11,688,053.
Although the person who recently bought a Powerball ticket in Charleston didn’t win the game’s grand prize, they did match five of the six numbers drawn and won a $100,000 jackpot, South Carolina Education Lottery officials said Thursday in a news release.