The Powerball jackpot has grown to an estimated $1.7 billion for Wednesday’s Christmas Eve drawing after lottery officers mentioned no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Monday evening.
That makes it the fourth-largest prize in lottery historical past, and a jackpot greater than any Mega Hundreds of thousands haul — ever.
The U.S. has seen greater than a dozen lottery jackpot prizes exceed $1 billion since 2016. Here’s a take a look at the biggest U.S. jackpots received and the locations the place the successful tickets had been offered:
1. $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 7, 2022. The successful ticket was offered at a Los Angeles-area gasoline station.
2. $1.787 billion, Powerball, Sept. 6, 2025. The successful tickets had been offered in Missouri and Texas.
3. $1.765 billion, Powerball, Oct. 11, 2023. The successful ticket was offered at a liquor retailer in a tiny California mountain city.
4.* $1.7 billion, Powerball, Dec. 24, 2024: TBD
5. $1.602 billion, Mega Hundreds of thousands, Aug. 8, 2023. The successful ticket was offered at a grocery store in Neptune Seaside, Florida.
6. $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016. The successful tickets had been offered at a Los Angeles-area comfort retailer, a Florida grocery store and a Tennessee grocery retailer.
7. $1.537 billion, Mega Hundreds of thousands, Oct. 23, 2018. The successful ticket was offered at a South Carolina comfort retailer.
8. $1.348 billion, Mega Hundreds of thousands, Jan. 13, 2023. The successful ticket was offered at a Maine gasoline station.
9. $1.337 billion, Mega Hundreds of thousands, July 29, 2022. The successful ticket was offered at a Chicago-area gasoline station.
10. $1.326 billion, Powerball, April 7, 2024. The successful ticket was offered at an Oregon comfort retailer.
