Santa had a huge Christmas present in his sleigh on Christmas Eve.
One winning ticket for the $1.817 billion jackpot was sold in Arkansas. It was the second-largest jackpot winner in American lottery history.
The winning numbers for Wednesday night’s drawing were 4, 25, 31, 52, 59, with a Powerball of 19. The jackpot was worth a total cash amount of $834.9 million.
Wednesday’s drawing was the 47th in the current jackpot round, a record for the most prizes in a Powerball jackpot tournament, the game said. The last time a Powerball jackpot was won was on September 6 in Missouri and Texas, when two tickets were split. The grand prize is $1.787 billion.
The Powerball jackpot was won just once on Christmas Eve in 2011, and four times on Christmas Day, the game said. Powerball began in 1992.
To win the jackpot, the ticket must match the five white balls and the red Powerball ball drawn during the drawing. One grand prize winner will You have the choice From a lump sum payment or an annuity payout consisting of one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments increasing by 5% each year. Both the cash lump sum and the annuity estimate are estimated before taxes.
Powerball said this is only the second time in the game’s history that consecutive jackpots have exceeded $1 billion.
In 2022, a single ticket sold in Altadena, California won the $2.04 billion jackpot, The largest in the history of Powerball and the lottery.
the Odds of winning the jackpot It’s 1 in 292.2 million, according to Powerball. Lottery jackpots have exploded in size Over the past decade, while the odds of winning have become lower.
Each ticket costs $2 and is sold in 45 states and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings take place every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 11pm ET.