Powerball jackpot leaps to $643 million for Wed.'s drawing
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Here are the winning Powerball numbers for Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025: The winning numbers from Wednesday's drawing were 31, 59, 62, 65, 68 and the Powerball was 5. The Power Play multiplier was 2. There were no winning tickets sold for the main jackpot.
The jackpot was last won May 31, when a California player hit the $204.5 million grand prize. The biggest Powerball jackpot in history, worth $2.04 billion, was won in 2022 by a California player, the New York Times said. In the latest drawing, a ticket sold in Tennessee won $2 million. Tickets sold in Michigan and Oklahoma won $1 million each.
A lucky ticket holder in Tennessee woke up with a $2 million winning Powerball ticket. The jackpot is growing and still up for grabs though. Here's what to know.
The Powerball jackpot has hit $700 million after no one matched all six numbers in the Wednesday, Aug. 20 drawing.
(NEXSTAR) — The Powerball jackpot has yet again grown after no ticket was able to match the numbers drawn Wednesday night. The jackpot now sits just outside of the top 10 largest in the game’s history. Without a winner, the jackpot now sits at an ...
It’s far from the record jackpot territory of $2 billion, though it’s still among the higher lottery prize amounts to date. But for Adam Osmond, any jackpot fervor only serves as a reminder of the dark side of lotteries.
Getty Images/iStockphoto A Powerball ticket sold in Tennessee won $2 million, just missing the $650 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The ticket matched five winning numbers and the Power Play multiplier but not the Powerball in the drawing Wednesday ...