Powerball jackpot reaches $1 billion mark for second time in 2025

Powerball may bid adieu to 2025 with cash confetti of a jackpot if Saturday night's drawing finds a winning ticket to claim its $1 billion top prize

Powerball may bid adieu to 2025 with cash confetti of a jackpot if Saturday night's drawing finds a winning ticket to claim its $1 billion top prize.

The sum, with an upfront cash value of $457.7 million before taxes, marks the second time the multi-state game has reached or surpassed the $1 billion mark this year.

On Sept. 6, a $1.787 billion prize was split by ticketholders in Missouri and Texas. That jackpot was the second-largest in Powerball history, surpassed only by the Nov. 7, 2022, jackpot of $2.04 billion, a world national lottery record.

A winner on Saturday would take home the seventh-largest jackpot in Powerball history. It would also put an end to the 41-day streak of drawings without a winner.

The run is tied for longest with a winless stretch that ended on April 6, 2024, when a ticket from Oregon unlocked a $1.3 billion jackpot.