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Posted on 12/25/2025 4:08:19 AM PST by DFG
Deck the halls with Benjamins!
A Powerball player in Arkansas won the $1.82 billion jackpot winning ticket on Wednesday night, the second-largest jackpot in lotto history.
The winning numbers for the Christmas Eve drawing were 4, 25, 31, 52, 59 and the Powerball 19.
The lucky winner can choose between the $1.82 billion prize paid out over 29 years or the one-time lump sum of $834.9 million.
The drawing was initially marketed at $1.7 billion, but the pot was raised to the new life-changing figure after final ticket sales were tallied.
It is the second time the Powerball grand prize has been won on Christmas Eve; the first was in 2011, when an anonymous ticket holder cashed in on the $128.8 million payout in Maryland.
“Congratulations to the newest Powerball jackpot winner! This is truly an extraordinary, life-changing prize,” Powerball Product Group Chair and Iowa Lottery CEO Matt Strawn said. “We also want to thank all the players who joined in this jackpot streak – every ticket purchased helps support public programs and services across the country.”
The Natural State has produced only one other Powerball jackpot winner – a $25 million prize won on Jan. 2, 2010.
The player chose to remain anonymous and picked the $12.15 million cash option.
Arkansas Lottery players who win a prize worth $500,000 or more are allowed to remain anonymous for three years.
The Powerball jackpot was last won on Sept. 6, when two players shared the $1.78 billion prize.
The two winners, hailing from Missouri and Texas, each had the option of taking an annuitized prize of $895 million paid out over 29 years, or a one-time lump sum of $410.3 million.
The two players, who remained anonymous due to state laws, both chose the $410.3 million cash option.
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My favorite uncle has the ticket.
Thanks for posting. Foiled again. I guess I’ll keep working. I’ve got all the things that money can’t buy.
Dang it, I was going to play those exact numbers, but I forgot to buy the ticket.
Well, there goes my retirement plan. Guess I have to go back to work Monday.
But I'll ponder the annual option a bit more before a final decision.
I’d invest it all myself and then give the majority to whichever charity does the most.
I had the winning ticket!!!!!
They drew the wrong numbers.....
I had the winning ticket!!!!!
They drew the wrong numbers.....
$834.9 mill if it was for cash which is about 1/2 of the 1.8 billion. But then the state and fed income tax subtracted probably fetch around 1/2 billion. Not bad, not bad at all, I’d love to have it, but I don’t think the state and feds should get any more. If played for cash, they already get half.
Well, whoever it is did something inappropriate to me twenty years ago and I need justice!
I have no idea what our church would have done with $84M in tithe.
EC
“one-time lump sum of $834.9 million”
I heard after taxes etc. it’s more like 350 million......still nothing to complain about.
Now they can pay me the 100 bucks they owe me.
Probably use it to help illegal aliens. They’ve been doing a lot of that wasteful spending.
Same, I have to go back into Retirement tomorrow.
I’m a Methodist. I know exactly what they would do which is why they wouldn’t be getting it.
...at least it wasn’t someone from California or Massachusetts...
Billion became the new million about 20 years ago. And then trillion became the new million a few years ago.
Ask yourself how many times you heard the word trillion on the nightly news anytime in the 20th century.
After my experience with Helene; I would give a donation to Samaritan’s Purse...
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