The Powerball jackpot stands at $1 billion, as of Friday, Dec. 12. Here's where it can be claimed anonymously.

You can check the Massachusetts Lottery website, or the Powerball website for the drawing results. Powerball tickets are $2 each and can be purchased until 9:50 p.m. on the day of a drawing. The Powerball website states that, "the overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24.9. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million."

The winning numbers for the Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $1 billion will be drawn Saturday night. The drawing takes place at 10:59 p.m. ET and can be streamed live on Powerball.com.

Lottery hopefuls are taking their shot at Saturday night’s $1 billion Powerball jackpot – the 14th US lottery prize to ever reach $1 billion and the second to do so this year.

Mega Millions followed a similar path. Its first jackpot winner in 2002 took home $28 million. Its record prize — a $1.602 billion jackpot won on Aug. 8, 2023 — ranks as the fourth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.

The Mega Millions jackpot is $70 million for the Friday, Dec. 12 drawing, while Saturday’s Classic Lotto jackpot is $1.2 million. Thursday’s winning Ohio Lottery numbers are:

For the 14th time in history, a lottery jackpot reached $1 billion after Dec. 10, 2025, Powerball drawing. Who won biggest prizes ever? Here's a list.

The next drawing for Powerball is Monday, Dec. 8. The Powerball jackpot sits at $875 million with a $403.6 million cash value. The Powerball drawing takes place every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.

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Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing went without a jackpot winner, pushing the top prize to an estimated $1 billion for Saturday. It’s the second largest of this year, lagging only the $1.787 billion Powerball jackpot in September, claimed by two winners in Missouri and Texas.