A Powerball player there holds the winning ticket from Wednesday night's drawing for the game's $1.817 billion jackpot. The winner, who so far hasn't gone public, can choose between an annuitized prize of $1.817 billion or a lump sump payment of $834.9 million (both prize options are before taxes).

More than a day after Arkansas lottery officials announced that someone had purchased the winning Powerball ticket, worth a whopping $1.817 billion, in the small city of Cabot, the mystery remained as to who could be the winner at the gas station off Highway 67 where it was sold.

Powerball jackpot for Wednesday, Jan. 7 now is up to $105 million with a cash value of $47.4 million. Ready to try your luck with Powerball? Here's everything you need to know.

With the Powerball jackpot at $105 million, check to see if you have the winning numbers after the lottery draw on Wednesday at 10:59 p.m. ET.

A Powerball player in Virginia missed out on the colossal $1.817 billion jackpot by just one number, but still walked away with a modest $100,000 payout.

A Powerball lottery ticket worth $50,000 was purchased at a gas station along the Jersey Shore for Monday’s drawing. The winning ticket was sold at the Shell station on Main Street in Bradley Beach, Monmouth County, according to the New Jersey Lottery. It matched four numbers plus the Powerball.

Mega Millions winner who got ticket from Publix in Newnan, Georgia, took cash. Who won $1.817 billion Christmas Eve Powerball in Arkansas?

Powerball and Mega Millions players in Florida just went through a triple whammy in billion-dollar lottery streaks for 2025 — but it wasn’t all bad news. No one in the Sunshine State won the grand prize in these newsworthy lottery drawings: In September,