Powerball jackpot flashback: Three record-breaking drawings worth remembering in 2025

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 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 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. Here are three remarkable Powerball wins from 2025 so far.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

The same drawing also matched a ticket in Michigan valued at $2 million. 

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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."