{"id":467435,"date":"2025-12-23T21:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/467435\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T21:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:27:12","slug":"last-nights-powerball-created-several-new-millionaires-but-no-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/467435\/","title":{"rendered":"Last night&#8217;s Powerball created several new millionaires, but no winner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the 46th consecutive drawing, no one matched all six numbers of the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-12-21\/powerball-jackpot-hits-1-6-billion-monday-oxnard-market-sells-2-3-million-ticket\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Powerball lottery Monday,<\/a> although several new millionaires were created, game officials announced.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, nine different tickets matched five of the six winning numbers, missing only the red \u201cPowerball\u201d number. Each ticket is worth $1 million before taxes. The winning numbers in Monday\u2019s drawing were 3, 18, 36, 41, 54 and red Powerball 7.<\/p>\n<p>The $1-million tickets were sold in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York (where there were two winning tickets) Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>But because no one matched all six numbers, the jackpot will grow to an estimated $1.7 billion \u2014 scheduled to be drawn on Christmas Eve, game officials announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope this growing jackpot inspires excitement and joy, and, most importantly, good will to all,\u201d said Matt Strawn, chair of the group that runs the Powerball game and chief executive of the Iowa State Lottery, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.powerball.com\/1.7-billion-powerball-jackpot-set-for-christmas-eve-drawing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s drawing will be the 47th Powerball drawing in a row looking for a jackpot winner, a record, game officials said. It will also be the fourth-highest jackpot in U.S. lottery history.<\/p>\n<p>The three largest jackpots were also from Powerball. They were:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\">\n<li>$1.765 billion in October 2023 \u2014 sold in California<\/li>\n<li>$1.787 billion in September 2025 \u2014 sold in Texas<\/li>\n<li>$2.04 billion in November 2022 \u2014 sold in California<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The game is played in 45 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the 46th consecutive drawing, no one matched all six numbers of the Powerball lottery Monday, although several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":467436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[212594,64,212591,66792,212590,75770,212593,9548,3215,13009,16502,2830,55355,212592,1229,67,132,68,15613],"class_list":{"0":"post-467435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-billionaire-winner","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-different-ticket","11":"tag-drawing","12":"tag-game-official","13":"tag-jackpot","14":"tag-last-night","15":"tag-monday","16":"tag-news-release","17":"tag-number","18":"tag-one","19":"tag-pennsylvania","20":"tag-powerball","21":"tag-several-new-millionaire","22":"tag-tennessee","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-wednesday"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115771004944793288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467435","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=467435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}