Is today your lucky day? The Powerball numbers have dropped for the Wednesday, October 8, 2025 lottery jackpot worth an estimated $222.8 million, with a cash option of $104.4 million.
The winning numbers for Wednesday night’s drawing: 8, 10, 44, 48, 54, and the Powerball: 14. The Power Play: 2X.
No one across the country hit Wednesday’s $222.8 million jackpot. There were also no second-prize, $1 million tickets sold.
There were also 10 tickets nationwide that won $50,000 prizes, 2 tickets that $100,000 prizes, and 3 tickets worth $17,297 (California).
In total, more than 403,800 tickets won cash prizes totaling $3.04 million in Monday’s drawing.
These are the prize payouts for all states that play Powerball combined, along with the prize values for each prize tier, with and without the “Power Play” on Wed, Oct 8, 2025:
| Match | Winners | Prize | Power Play Winners | Power Play Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O O O O O | O | 0 | c USD | X | X |
| O O O O O | 0 | 1,000,000 USD | 0 | 2,000,000 USD |
| O O O O | O | 13 | 50,000 USD | 2 | 100,000 USD |
| O O O O | 198 | 100 USD | 59 | 200 USD |
| O O O | O | 524 | 100 USD | 190 | 200 USD |
| O O O | 13,380 | 7 USD | 4,478 | 14 USD |
| O O | O | 10,987 | 7 USD | 3,772 | 14 USD |
| O | O | 83,907 | 4 USD | 28,557 | 8 USD |
| | O | 192,552 | 4 USD | 65,263 | 8 USD |
Powerball is played in 44 states, Washington D.C, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The odds of a ticket hitting the jackpot are 292,201,338 to 1. Players have roughly a 1 in 11,688,053 chance to win at least $1 million.
To play Powerball, you pick six numbers: five numbers between one and 69 for the white balls; and one number between one and 26 for the red Powerball. Selecting all of them correctly gets you the jackpot. You can also pay for the Power Play option, which multiples any winnings earned by two, three, four, five or 10 times the amount, depending on which number is drawn.
How can you increase your odds? You can buy more than one ticket, though you’d have to have purchase 292,201,338 to account for all of the numerical possibilities, which would cost more than winning the jackpot. You have much better odds of winning a small prize:
Jackpot: Five matching numbers with the Powerball: 1 in 292,201,338
$1 million prize: Five matching numbers: 1 in 11,688,053.52
$50,000 prize: Four matching numbers with the Powerball: 1 in 913,129.18
$100 prize: Four matching numbers: 1 in 36,525.17
$100 prize: Three matching numbers with the Powerball: 1 in 14,494.11
$7 prize: Three matching numbers: 1 in 579.76
$7 prize: Two matching numbers with the Powerball: 1 in 701.33
$4 prize: One matching number with the Powerball: 1 in 91.98
$4 prize: Powerball only: 1 in 38.32
Players around the world can play US Powerball online outside the US via lottery messenger service sites with tickets cost $5 each. To avoid online scams be sure that the site you are using is legitimate. For a comparison of three online retailers already reviewed by InternationalLottery.org read here.
The next Powerball drawing will be Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 11 pm ET. Have you purchased your ticket yet?
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