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 Mississippi Powerball player is $1 million richer. The winning ticket was sold at Sprint Mart #4135 in Columbus. The player matched all five white balls in the New Year's Eve Powerball drawing. If the player had added the $1 Power Play option, they would have turned $1 million into $10 million, according to Mississippi Lottery officials.

Christmas Eve Powerball win in Arkansas nearly broke the record of Edwin Castro of California, who won $2.04 billion Powerball in November 2022.

Almost a decade has passed since a three-way split for a $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot in 2016 included this Tennessee couple.

Brandon Jeffries bought a $3 Powerball ticket online and matched the numbers on four white balls and the red Powerball.

Powerball tickets for tonight's jackpot is worth $45 million. When is the drawing? How much is the Powerball jackpot? Winning numbers? What we know.

Powerball lottery ticket forms are seen here at the Bluebird Liquor on December 1 in Hawthorne, California. The Powerball jackpot drawing has climbed to an estimated $930 million, the second largest prize in 2025.