Winning numbers announced for estimated $1.25 billion Powerball jackpot

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The winning numbers for an estimated $1.25 cardinal Powerball jackpot — the game's sixth-largest prize ever — are 25, 33, 53, 62 and 66 with a Powerball of 17.

Wednesday's jackpot has an estimated currency worth of $572.1 million, Powerball said.

It was not instantly known if determination were immoderate winners of Wednesday's jackpot.

"Powerball has lone seen back-to-back to billion-dollar jackpots twice, and this 1 has arrived conscionable successful clip for the holidays," said Matt Strawn, Iowa Lottery CEO and Powerball Product Group chair.

The $1.25 cardinal Powerball jackpot is the second-biggest Powerball expansive prize this year: a $1.787 cardinal jackpot was hit Sept. 6 successful Missouri and Texas. Wednesday's drafting is the 44th since the past clip a jackpot was won — the longest specified Powerball run.

There were nary winning tickets sold for Monday night's $1.14 cardinal expansive prize.

To triumph the expansive prize, a summons indispensable lucifer the 5 achromatic balls pulled during the drafting arsenic good arsenic the reddish Powerball. A azygous jackpot victor would have the choice of taking a lump sum outgo estimated astatine $572.1 cardinal oregon opting for a payout via an annuity, which would dwell of 1 contiguous outgo followed by 29 yearly payments that summation by 5% each year. Either enactment is earlier taxes.

The odds of winning the apical prize are 1 successful 292.2 million, according to Powerball, but lottery jackpots person exploded successful size implicit the past decade. While the prizes are huge, the likelihood of winning inactive stay highly low.

Powerball drawings instrumentality spot each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday astatine 11 p.m. ET.

In 2022, a azygous summons sold successful Altadena, California, claimed a $2.04 cardinal jackpot, the largest successful some Powerball and lottery history. The archetypal Powerball drafting was successful 1992.

Powerball tickets are sold successful 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and outgo $2 each.