{"id":460620,"date":"2025-12-20T19:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460620\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T19:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:21:17","slug":"pa-powerball-ticket-wins-1-million-as-jackpot-grows-to-1-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460620\/","title":{"rendered":"PA Powerball ticket wins $1 million as jackpot grows to $1.5 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Powerball1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">FILE &#8211; Powerball logo displayed on a phone screen and coins are seen in this illustration photo. <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>PHILADELPHIA<\/strong> &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerball.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Powerball<\/a> ticket sold in Pennsylvania matched five numbers in Wednesday night\u2019s drawing, winning $1 million, according to lottery officials.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Pennsylvania ticket was one of several nationwide that matched all five white balls. The ticket did not include the Power Play multiplier.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Because no one matched all six numbers, the Powerball jackpot continues to climb. The next drawing will feature an estimated $1.5 billion jackpot, with a cash option of $689.3 million.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>Winning numbers (Dec. 17, 2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" 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=\"\">The Pennsylvania Lottery has not yet announced where the winning ticket was sold.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The next Powerball drawing takes place Saturday night, Dec. 20. The estimated jackpot is an astounding $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> This article is based on official Powerball drawing results.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/lottery\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lottery<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pennsylvania<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FILE &#8211; Powerball logo displayed on a phone screen and coins are seen in this illustration photo.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":460621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,6411,50,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-460620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-lottery","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115753522832434537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460620","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=460620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}