3 biggest Powerball wins of 2025 include record $1.787 billion jackpot in September

Since no one declared a Powerball winner on Saturday, October 11, the next Powerball drawing has been postponed to Monday evening.

The estimated jackpot for Monday night’s drawing was $258 million – with a cash value (lump sum) of $120.8 million.

Now, with no winners, according to the Powerball website, the next drawing will be held on Wednesday, with an estimated jackpot of $273 million ($127.8 million cash value).

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This year saw record victories across the country – with some notable stories too. Here are three impressive Powerball wins from 2025 so far.

The September jackpot is $1.787 billion

The massive $1.787 billion jackpot was claimed and split between two ticket holders in September.

One of the two unnamed lottery winners purchased the winning ticket, worth $893.5 million, at a QuikTrip gas station in St. Louis, Missouri, the Associated Press and lottery officials reported.

The winning numbers were 11, 23, 44, 61 and 62, and the Powerball number was 17.

The Missouri ticket holder split the winnings with another winner who purchased a ticket from a convenience store and gas station in Fredericksburg, Texas.

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This jackpot is said to have been the second-largest American lottery jackpot in history, with 41 consecutive drawings going without any matches.

$526.5 million jackpot in California

In March, Powerball announced the jackpot winner in California.

The ticket value was $526.5 million, while its cash value was $243.8 million.

Powerball said final ticket sales raised the jackpot from its previous estimate of $515 million.

A customer is seen holding a number slip for Powerball lottery tickets for the $750 million jackpot inside the Bluebird Liquor Store, which has sold winning tickets for past big lottery jackpots, in Hawthorne, California, on August 25, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

The California Lottery confirmed that the winning ticket was purchased from an Orange County 7-Eleven in Anaheim.

The winning numbers for the drawing on Saturday, March 29 were the white Powerball 7, 11, 21, 53, 61 and the red Powerball 2. The Power Play multiplier was 3X.

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This drawing also included five winning tickets worth $1 million each.

The $1 million winning tickets were sold in Ohio, Oregon, Texas and two in Georgia.

The $328.5 million jackpot begins in 2025

An Oregon Powerball player won the first jackpot of 2025 on January 18.

The winner pocketed $328.5 million after matching all six numbers in Saturday night’s drawing. The cash value of the jackpot was $146.4 million.

The winning numbers were the white balls 14, 31, 35, 64 and 69, as well as the red Powerball 23. The Power Play multiplier was 2X.

A newsstand in Manhattan is seen advertising the latest Powerball jackpot on September 5, 2025 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The same fee also matches a ticket in Michigan worth $2 million.

The grand prize winner, named Abbas Shafi, was a 79-year-old man from Beaverton, Oregon, according to a report by The Guardian.

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He purchased the ticket at a local Fred Meyer store.

The winner of the third-largest prize in Oregon history said he plans to spend his winnings traveling, making investments and donating to nonprofits “close to [his] heart.”

Additional anecdote: “There is a need to give up everything”

The donation was also close to another winner’s heart, as Fox News Digital previously reported.

One Virginia grandmother who used ChatGPT to help pick her Powerball numbers hit 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 bought the Power Play option, her prize tripled to $150,000, according to the Virginia Lottery.

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Edwards said she knew immediately what she wanted to do with the windfall.

“I knew I needed to give it all up because I’m so blessed, and I want this to be an example of how, when they’re blessed, they can bless others,” she said at a news conference.

Fox News Digital’s Deirdre Bardolph contributed reporting.