Update: Powerball Jackpot Grows To An Estimated $1.7 Billion

Gulf Shores News Staff • December 23, 2025

Powerball® Jackpot numbers still have no winner

Powerball Jackpot

There still has not been a winner of one of the largest lottery jackpots in history. The jackpot for Powerball® is now at $1.7 billion dollars, fourth largest in the game's history. A drawing will take place Wednesday at 10pm central time and locals are heading to Flora-Bama for tickets.


If a single ticket is sold matching each number drawn Monday, the winner could receive a jackpot of $1.7 billion paid out in 30 annualized payments, or elect to take the estimated lump sum of $781.3 million immediately which is the typically taken option.


Monday's lottery drawing numbers were: 3, 18, 36, 41, 54  and the powerball was 7.


Powerball® drawings are broadcast live every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at 9:59 pm CT.


The odds for a single winner of the jackpot is 1 in 292,201,338. But the winner will not care about the odds after cashing in the ticket with the correct numbers.


So what would you do with an extra $781 million dollars? Most big winners buy real estate, new cars, big boats and immediately pay off debt. But some have built a water park, traveled the world or even taken the winning to gamble in Las Vegas.


PRIOR BIGGEST LOTTERY JACKPOTS IN U.S. HISTORY:

$2.04 billion Powerball prize, Nov. 7, 2022, Edwin Castro of Altadena, California

$1.79 billion Powerball prize, Sept. 6, 2025, tickets purchased in St. Louis, Missouri, and Fredericksburg, Texas

$1.73 billion Powerball prize, Oct. 11, 2023, Theodorus Struyck of California (ticket purchased at Midway Market in California)

$1.586 billion Powerball prize, Jan. 13, 2016, Marvin and Mae Acosta of California, Maureen Smith and David Kaltschmidt of Melbourne Beach, Florida, and John and Lisa Robinson of Munford, Tennessee

$1.58 billion Mega Millions prize, Aug. 8, 2023, Saltines Holdings LLC of Miami, Florida

$1.537 billion Mega Millions prize, Oct. 23, 2018, won by an anonymous player in South Carolina

$1.348 billion Mega Millions prize, Jan. 13, 2023, LaKoma Island Investments, LLC, with the ticket purchased in Lebanon, Maine

$1.337 billion Mega Millions prize, July 29, 2022, won by an anonymous partnership with a ticket purchased in Des Plaines, Illinois

$1.326 billion Powerball prize, April 6, 2024, Cheng and Duanpen Saephan and Laiza Chao of Oregon

$1.269 billion Mega Millions, Dec. 27, 2024, Rosemary Casarotti of California


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