$1.04 billion Powerball jackpot won by single ticket in Illinois
A single ticket sold in Illinois won the biggest Powerball jackpot of the year, $1.04 billion, in Wednesday night's drawing.
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A single ticket sold in Illinois won the biggest Powerball jackpot of the year, $1.04 billion, in Wednesday night's drawing.
A single ticket sold in Illinois won the biggest Powerball jackpot of the year, $1.04 billion, in Wednesday night's drawing, the game says.
No winning tickets were sold for Monday night's $905 million Powerball jackpot, so the estimated grand prize for Wednesday's drawing will be at least $1 billion.
The total is also the eighth-largest Powerball jackpot in the game's history.
The man used a set of three-decade-old lucky numbers from an animatronic fortune-teller machine to score a $1 million Powerball prize.
A Powerball lottery player in Michigan is $1 million richer after winning a runner-up prize in Wednesday's drawing.
A three-person Michigan lottery club plans to travel and invest after winning a $1 million Powerball prize.
The lucky winner plans to share his winnings with his friends and family.
A single winning ticket was sold for Powerball's Christmas Eve jackpot of $1.817 billion, in Arkansas. It was the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever won.
A Powerball lottery player in Southeast Michigan is $1 million richer from a runner-up prize in Wednesday's drawing.
The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday's drawing - one of the largest lottery prizes in U.S. history - has gone to one lucky winner.
Here are the top 20 largest Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots, and the odds of winning them.
With no winner in Monday's drawing, the Powerball jackpot on Christmas Eve will be at least an estimated $1.7 billion.
Two winning Powerball tickets worth $1 million each were sold in Michigan, lottery officials said on Sunday.
A fire spread through an apartment complex in Ann Arbor Township on Saturday night, a Michigan Lottery player has a winning $1 million Powerball ticket and other top stories for the evening of Dec. 21, 2025.
A winning Powerball ticket worth $1 million was sold at Mister A's Party Shoppe, lottery officials said. The ticket matched five numbers in the Dec. 20, 2025, drawing.
The Powerball jackpot grew to an estimated $1.6 billion after no tickets matched all six winning numbers at Saturday night's drawing. It's the fifth-largest prize among U.S. lottery jackpots.
The Powerball jackpot leaped to an estimated $1.5 billion after no one won Wednesday night's pot of gold of approximately $1.25 billion.
The $1 billion jackpot is the seventh-largest in the game's history.
A group of 18 coworkers in Grand Blanc, Michigan, will share a $1 million Powerball from the Michigan Lottery.
A Michigan lottery club called winning a $2 million Powerball prize from the Michigan Lottery "comforting and unbelievable."
A Downriver woman says a set of numbers generated by ChatGPT resulted in her winning a $100,000 Powerball prize.
A Detroit woman played the Powerball for the first time on a whim and ended up walking away with a $1 million prize.
Saturday's jackpot had an total cash value of $820.6 million, Powerball said.
Another runner-up Powerball winner is reported in Michigan, with a $1 million payout waiting for them after Saturday's drawing.
