The Powerball jackpot rose to $483 million ahead of Wednesday night's drawing, just one day after someone scored big and won $344 million in the Mega Millions game.

The Powerball lottery jackpot was an estimated $484 million with a cash option of $228.1 million for Wednesday night's drawing.

The last Powerball streak ended Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, when a ticket purchased in Oregon matched all five numbers plus the Powerball to win $331 million. The jackpot reset to $20 million on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, which was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday, and Inauguration Day 2025.

The Mega Millions lottery game is changing. The changes, slated to take effect starting in April, will lead to more billion-dollar jackpots, according to industry experts.

A $1 million prize and a $50,000 prize won on separate Powerball tickets sold in Massachusetts for drawings that took place in April 2024 have yet to be claimed. Time is running out to claim them, lottery officials said Friday.

A winning ticket worth $1 million for Wednesday’s Powerball drawing was sold at a Hampton Bays gas station, the New York Lottery announced. The second-prize ticket was sold at a Mobil station convenience store located at 239 West Montauk Hwy.

The winning numbers in Friday's drawing of the "West Virginia Cash 25" game were: (six, eight, seventeen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-four)

Two Powerball tickets sold in New York and Washington, D.C., won $1 million each but just missed the $483 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The tickets matched five winning numbers but not the Powerball in the drawing Wednesday,

The winning numbers in Thursday evening’s drawing of the "Arkansas Cash 3 Evening" game were: (zero, zero, nine)