Happy holidays! Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2025, Christmas Eve Powerball was $1.7 billion not long after 6 Florida tickets won $1 million in less than a month.

The odds of winning Wednesday's jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. One math professor says those odds are equivalent to selecting one marked dollar bill from a stack 19 miles high.

Here are the latest winning lottery numbers from Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2025. You can find all the lottery results, including Powerball and Mega Millions, each night on PennLive. Treasure Hunt: 3, 5, 15, 21, 29 Next Jackpot: $12,000 Change from last: No Change

Wednesday's Powerball jackpot reaches $1.7 billion, the sixth-largest in history.Former winner Timothy Shultz credits financial advisors for preserving his lottery wealth.Shultz invested in stocks and bonds,

A winning $1 million ticket for Monday’s Powerball drawing was sold in Valley Stream, the New York Lottery announced in a news release.

Big lottery wins around the U.S. include a lucky lottery ticketholder in California who won a $1.27 billion Mega Millions jackpot in December 2024. See more big winners here. And if you do end up cashing a jackpot, here’s what experts say to do first.

The chances of winning the Powerball Grand Prize is much smaller than being struck by lightening, killed in a shark attack, or born on a Leap Day.

Powerball’s $1.7 billion jackpot may create a new ultrarich winner, but financial planners say what happens after the drawing can matter more than the winning numbers. They describe a consistent set of mistakes that can quietly turn a once‑in‑a‑lifetime windfall into a long, public mess.​