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.
The $2 game, played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, underwent a series of changes over the last two decades intended to boost jackpots and appeal to a broader market of ticket buyers.
The odds of winning the jackpot on Saturday are 1 in 292.2 million, according to the the game’s organizers at the Multi-State Lottery Association.
Saturday’s draw is scheduled to take place at 10:59 p.m. ET.
