Did anyone win Powerball last night? Dec. 20 winning numbers for $1.5B jackpot
This is what you can buy if you win the $1 billion lottery
Mega Millions and Powerball are approaching record numbers. Here’s what the winner could buy if they hit the jackpot.
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After Saturday night’s $1.5 million jackpot went unclaimed, the total winnings have become the fourth-highest in game history.
The cash value of Saturday’s $1.5 billion jackpot, the fifth-largest in the history of the game, was an estimated $689.3 million. Now the jackpot has hit an estimated $1.6 billion ahead of the next drawing. This grand prize is among the highest between Powerball and Mega Millions.
This total comes only a few months after a lucky winner won the $1.787 billion grand prize in September, the second-highest jackpot in the game’s history.
Here are the winning numbers for the Dec. 20 drawing.
What were the winning Powerball numbers for 12/20/2025?
The winning numbers for the Dec. 20 drawing are 4-5-28-52-69, with the Powerball being 20 and the Power Play being 4x.
No winning Match 5 and Power Play tickets worth $2 million each were sold.
Eight $1 million in Match 5 and Power Play tickets were sold in California, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Michigan (2), New Hampshire and Ohio.
When is the next Powerball drawing?
The next Powerball drawing is Dec. 22, at about 10:59 p.m. ET/9:59 CT. Powerball has three drawings each week on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
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How much is the Powerball jackpot now?
The jackpot ahead of the Dec. 22 drawing has reached an estimated $1.6 billion, with a lump-sum payment of $735.3 million, according to powerball.com.
The current jackpot is the fourth-largest in Powerball history. It is also the fourth-largest jackpot in U.S. history between Powerball and Mega Millions.
How much is the jackpot take-home?
Both the $1.6 billion annuitized prize and the $735.3 million lump-sum cash payment amounts would be before taxes. If the winner chooses the annuity option, they will receive one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5% each year.
The plan will go over which payout options are available:
- Annuity: One immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments, with each payment being 5% larger than the previous one.
- Lump sum: One-time payment equal to all of the cash in the jackpot prize pool.
Whether you should take the one-time payment or go with the annuity option depends on your goals, your age, and what the lottery rules are for beneficiaries to continue receiving payments, or if you’d likely squander a lump sum.
What are the odds of winning a Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot?
The chances of winning big are pretty slim.
The odds of winning a Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302.6 million.
The odds of winning a Powerball jackpot — no matter the size — are around 1 in 292.2 million.
How often does the lottery hit $1 billion or more?
Having Powerball or Mega Millions hit the $1 billion mark is no longer as uncommon as it once was.
In the last five years, there have been eight jackpots between Mega Millions and Powerball that have gone over the $1 billion mark. And three of those happened in 2023, and two occurred in 2024.
The highest lottery jackpot was won in November 2022, amounting to $2.04 billion. It was the second jackpot over $1 billion that year. Before that, the only other times a jackpot hit over a billion were in 2021, 2018 and 2016.
Top 10 highest Powerball jackpots
The latest jackpot has broken into the fifth-highest ever jackpots in the history of Powerball.
- $2.04 Billion – Nov. 7, 2022 – California
- $1.787 Billion – Sept. 6, 2025 – Texas
- $1.765 Billion – Oct. 11, 2023 – California
- $1.6 Billion – Current
- $1.586 Billion – Jan. 13, 2016 – California, Florida, Tennessee
- $1.326 Billion – April 6, 2024 – Oregon
- $1.08 Billion – July 19, 2023 – California
- $842.4 Million – January 1, 2024 – Michigan
- $768.4 Million – March 27, 2019 – Wisconsin
- $758.7 Million – Aug. 23, 2017 – Massachusetts
Top 10 U.S. lottery drawing Powerball and Mega Millions jackpot results
Here are the nation’s all-time top 10 Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots, according to powerball.com:
- $2.04 billion, Powerball — Nov. 7, 2022; California
- $1.765 billion, Powerball — Oct. 11, 2023; California
- $1.602 billion, Mega Millions — Aug. 8, 2023; Florida
- $1.6 billion, Powerball — Current
- $1.586 billion, Powerball — Jan. 13, 2016; California, Florida, Tennessee
- $1.537 billion, Mega Millions — Oct. 23, 2018; South Carolina
- $1.35 billion, Mega Millions — Jan. 13, 2023; Maine
- $1.337 billion, Mega Millions — July 29, 2022; Illinois
- $1.326 billion, Powerball — April 6, 2024; Oregon
- $1.3 billion (est.), Powerball — Sept. 3, 2025
Jordan Green covers trending news for The Commercial Appeal. She can be reached at jordan.green@commercialappeal.com.
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