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Powerball jackpot flashback: Three record-breaking drawings worth remembering in 2025
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Since no one claimed a Powerball win on Saturday, Oct. 11, the next Powerball drawing rolled over to Monday evening.
The estimated jackpot for the Monday night drawing was $258 million — with a cash value (lump sum) of $120.8 million.
And now, with no winners of that, per the Powerball website, the next drawing will be held on Wednesday, with an estimated jackpot of $273 million (cash value $127.8 million).
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This year has seen record-breaking wins across the country — with some standout stories as well. Here are three remarkable Powerball wins from 2025 so far.
$1.787 billion September jackpot
A massive $1.787 billion jackpot was claimed and split between two ticket-holders in September.
One of two unnamed lottery winners purchased the winning ticket, valued at $893.5 million, from a QuikTrip gas station in St. Louis, Missouri, as The Associated Press and lottery officials reported.
A giant lottery advertising sign is seen along Highway 101 when the U.S. Powerball jackpot climbed to $1.70 billion in Belmont, San Mateo County, California, on Sept. 4, 2025. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The winning numbers were 11, 23, 44, 61 and 62, with a Powerball number of 17.
The Missouri ticket-holder split the earnings with another winner who bought a ticket from a Fredericksburg, Texas, convenience store and gas station.
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This prize was reportedly the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot in history, as it carried on for 41 consecutive drawings without any matches.
$526.5 million jackpot in California
In March, Powerball announced a jackpot winner in California.
The ticket was worth $526.5 million, with a cash value of $243.8 million.
Powerball said that final ticket sales raised the jackpot from its earlier estimate of $515 million.
A customer is shown holding a number slip for Powerball lottery tickets for a $750 million grand prize jackpot inside the Bluebird Liquor Store, which has sold winning tickets in past large lottery jackpots, in Hawthorne, California, on Aug. 25, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
The California Lottery confirmed that the winning ticket was purchased at an Orange County 7-Eleven in Anaheim.
The winning numbers for the Saturday, March 29, drawing were white balls 7, 11, 21, 53, 61 and red Powerball 2. The Power Play multiplier was 3X.
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This same drawing also included five winning tickets valued at $1 million each.
The winning million-dollar tickets were sold in Ohio, Oregon, Texas and two in Georgia.
$328.5 million jackpot to start off the year
A Powerball player in Oregon claimed the first jackpot of 2025 on Jan. 18.
The winner claimed $328.5 million after matching all six numbers in the Saturday-night drawing. The jackpot’s cash value was $146.4 million.
The winning numbers were white balls 14, 31, 35, 64 and 69, plus red Powerball 23. The Power Play multiplier was 2X.
A newsstand in Manhattan is shown advertising the latest Powerball jackpot on Sept. 5, 2025, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
The same drawing also matched a ticket in Michigan valued at $2 million.
The jackpot winner, identified as Abbas Shafi, was a 79-year-old man from Beaverton, Oregon, according to a report from The Guardian.
He purchased the ticket from a local Fred Meyer convenience store.
The winner of the third-largest prize in Oregon’s history said he plans to spend his winnings traveling, making investments and donating to nonprofit organizations that are “close to [his] heart.”
Bonus tale: ‘Needed to give it all away’
Donation was also close to another winner’s heart, as Fox News Digital previously reported.
A Virginia grandmother who used ChatGPT to help pick her Powerball numbers struck it big and donated it all to charity. Carrie Edwards of Midlothian matched four of the first five numbers, plus the Powerball, in the Sept. 8 drawing, winning $50,000. But because she purchased the Power Play option, her prize tripled to $150,000, according to the Virginia Lottery.
Edwards said she knew instantly what she wanted to do with the unexpected windfall.
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“I knew I needed to give it all away because I’ve been so blessed, and I want this to be an example of how other people, when they’re blessed, can bless other people,” she said at a press conference.
Deirdre Bardolf of Fox News Digital contributed reporting.
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