Someone had a very merry Christmas Eve with a Powerball prize of $1.817 billion — will there be a New Year’s Eve winner, too? As they say in the lottery business, “it could happen to you.” Florida has been on a recent hot streak,

A Florida Powerball ticket is worth $1 million. Another winner in Dec. 22 drawing is a Fantasy 5 ticket sold in Vero Beach.

You don't need to compete with the country to win millions, these Florida Lottery scratchers still have millions in prizes waiting to be won.

John and Lisa Robinson of Munford, Tennessee, one of the $1.586 billion Powerball winners, appeared on NBC’s “Today" with Savannah Guthrie, Carson Daly

Players in the Sunshine State have won 17 Powerball jackpots since the Florida lottery added the game in 2009, according to media reports and Florida Lottery data, with jackpots ranging from $50 million up to a staggering $1.5 billion. Here are the lucky players.

Among the winning tickets were two sold at Publix, one of which was in South Florida, and one at a very lucky place in Broward County.

The jackpot for Monday's Powerball drawing has climbed to an estimated $1.6 billion after no big winners on Saturday.

A ticket sold in Arkansas was the winner of the Powerball $1.817 billion jackpot on Christmas Eve after matching all five numbers and the Powerball.

The winner of the Tuesday drawing will receive $1,000 a week for life, according to a Florida Lottery news release.