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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 received, in accordance with the lottery.
The biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. historical past was received on Nov. 7, 2022, when a California ticket claimed a $2.04 billion prize.
The white balls drawn Wednesday have been 4, 25, 31, 52 and 59. The pink 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 really 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 assist 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 are going to obtain one rapid cost adopted by 29 annual funds that enhance by 5% annually.
Each prize choices are earlier than taxes.
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A Powerball ticket offered 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 received $1 million by matching all 5 white balls. There have been additionally 114 tickets that received $50,000 prizes and 31 tickets that received $100,000 prizes.
Wednesday’s win marked simply the second time a Powerball jackpot ticket has been offered in Arkansas, with the primary coming in 2010.
The Powerball jackpot was final received on Sept. 6, when two tickets in Missouri and Texas cut 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 received within the U.S. (William Thomas Cain/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
The jackpot will reset to $20 million, with the subsequent drawing on Saturday.
The percentages of profitable the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
