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Date: September 7th, 2025 5:45 AM Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (You = Privy to The Great Becumming™ = Welcum to The Goodie Room™) Two winning tickets will split the $1.787 billion Powerball jackpot drawn on Saturday
https://www.nytimes.com/article/lottery-jackpot-record-powerball-megamillions.html
By The New York Times Sept. 7, 2025, 1:21 a.m. ET Two tickets sold in Missouri and Texas won the Powerball jackpot drawing on Saturday night. The owners of the tickets will split $1.787 billion, the second-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history, according to Powerball.
Huge jackpots have become increasingly common in the multistate Mega Millions and Powerball lottery drawings because of changes to the games over the years and higher ticket prices.
Between the two lotteries, more than a dozen jackpots in the United States have surpassed $1 billion since 2016.
In 2024, there were three jackpots over $1 billion: an estimated $1.13 billion Mega Millions prize claimed by a winning ticket in New Jersey in March, and a $1.33 billion Powerball jackpot won on April 7 by a ticket sold in Oregon. In December, a Mega Millions ticket sold in California won a $1.22 billion jackpot.
Here’s a look at the 10 biggest U.S. jackpots ever.
1. $2.04 billion The largest lottery jackpot to date, a Powerball drawing, was won on Nov. 7, 2022. The ticket was sold at Joe’s Service Center in Altadena, Calif., just north of Pasadena.
On Feb. 14, 2023, California Lottery officials revealed the name of the winner, Edwin Castro, but did not release further information about him at his request.
2. $1.787 billion Two Powerball tickets sold in Missouri and Texas won the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot in the Sept. 6, 2025 drawing. Taken as a cash payout instead of an annuity, each winner will receive $410.3 million, before taxes, according to Powerball.
3. $1.765 billion The winning ticket for this Powerball, drawn in October 2023, was sold at Midway Market & Liquor in Frazier Park, a rural town about 70 miles north of Los Angeles, Calif. In March 2024, the California Lottery said that Theodorus Struyck had come forward as the representative of a group of people who would split the jackpot.
4. $1.59 billion This jackpot, also a Powerball, was split three ways. The winning numbers were drawn on Jan. 13, 2016, matching tickets bought in Chino Hills, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles; Munford, Tenn., north of Memphis; and Melbourne Beach, Fla., on the Atlantic Coast.
“I think we can all live on $528 million, don’t you think?” Russ Lopez, a spokesman for the California Lottery, said at the time.
5. $1.58 billion This Mega Millions jackpot was won on Aug. 9, 2023.
In late December that year, the company Saltines Holdings LLC in Miami was named as the winner, according to the Florida Lottery, which reported that the entity accepted a lump-sum payment of $794,248,882. Winners in Florida cannot remain completely anonymous, but can conceal their identities by creating a legal entity.
6. $1.54 billion A single ticket sold in Simpsonville, S.C., won a Mega Millions jackpot on Oct. 23, 2018. The prize was not claimed until March of the following year, when an anonymous winner came forward through a lawyer, opting for a one-time lump sum of $877,784,124 instead of taking payments over 30 years.
7. $1.35 billion A single ticket sold in Lebanon, Maine, won an estimated $1.35 billion in the Mega Millions drawing on Jan. 13, 2023. A winner came forward a month later but chose to remain anonymous, officials said. The person collected the prize, through a limited liability company, as a single cash payment of $723,564,144 before taxes.
8. $1.34 billion The winning Mega Millions ticket on July 29, 2022, was sold in Des Plaines, Ill. After several weeks, an anonymous winner came forward. Illinois is one of several states that allow lottery winners to keep their names and addresses confidential.
9. $1.33 billion A Powerball drawing that was announced early on April 7, 2024, after several hours of delays, matched a ticket sold in Oregon, the Oregon Lottery said. On April 29, the lottery said that the ticket had been purchased by Cheng Saephan of Portland.
Mr. Saephan, who is originally from Laos and is known as Charlie, said at a news conference that he was receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of a cancer that was first diagnosed eight years earlier. He said he would split a lump-sum payment, worth about $422 million after taxes, with his wife and a family friend who had chipped in to buy a batch of Powerball tickets. He said he planned to use the money to buy a house “and find a good doctor for myself.”
10. $1.22 billion A single winning ticket for the Dec. 27, 2024, Mega Millions jackpot was sold in Cottonwood, Calif., when the prize had reached an estimated $1.22 billion, or $549.7 million cash.
That was the fourth Mega Millions jackpot won in 2024, the fewest in any year since the game began in 2002, the lottery organization said. The last jackpot was won in Texas in September. In 2023, there were a record 10 jackpots won. |