{"id":460380,"date":"2025-12-20T16:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T16:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460380\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T16:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T16:43:17","slug":"3-ny-powerball-players-win-1-million-each-jackpot-rises-to-1-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460380\/","title":{"rendered":"3 NY Powerball players win $1 million each, jackpot rises to $1.5 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/powerball.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> &#8211; Several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerball.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Powerball<\/a> players in New York and Connecticut are waking up as millionaires after matching five numbers in Wednesday night\u2019s drawing.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Lottery officials say three tickets sold in New York and one ticket sold in Connecticut matched all five white balls, winning $1 million each. None of the tickets included the Power Play option.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">There were no jackpot winners, meaning the Powerball prize climbs to an estimated $1.5 billion for Saturday night\u2019s drawing. The cash value of the jackpot is estimated at $689.3 million.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>Winning numbers (Dec. 17, 2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">25 \u2013 33 \u2013 53 \u2013 62 \u2013 66<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Powerball: 17<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Power Play: 4x<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Lottery officials have not yet released where the winning tickets were sold.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The next Powerball drawing is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 20. The current estimated jackpot is an astonishing $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> This story is based on official Powerball drawing results.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/lottery\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lottery<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW YORK &#8211; Several Powerball players in New York and Connecticut are waking up as millionaires after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":460381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,6411,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-460380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-lottery","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115752902619861381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}