No one hit Saturday’s $1.50 Billion jackpot. The Powerball jackpot for Monday’s lottery drawing has climbed to an estimated $1.60 Billion, with a cash option valued at $735.3 million.
The winning numbers were: 4, 5, 28, 52 and 69. The Powerball drawn was 20 with a Power Play of 3X.
While there was no grand prize winner, 8 players matched all five white numbers drawn to win $1 million.
In addition, the Powerball lottery awarded 112 third prizes worth $50,000; third prizes belonged to the owners who marked Power Play 3X, which helped to multiply 3 times the prize value to $150,000;
The total prize money for the awards reaches over $34.79 million.
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 Sat, Dec 20, 2025:
| Match | Winners | Prize | PowerPlay Winners | PowerPlay Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O O O O O | O | 0 | 1,500,000,000 USD | X | X |
| O O O O O | 8 | 1,000,000 USD | 0 | 2,000,000 USD |
| O O O O | O | 112 | 50,000 USD | 22 | 150,000 USD |
| O O O O | 2,533 | 100 USD | 589 | 300 USD |
| O O O | O | 6,538 | 100 USD | 1,728 | 300 USD |
| O O O | 163,955 | 7 USD | 42,320 | 21 USD |
| O O | O | 133,843 | 7 USD | 33,357 | 21 USD |
| O | O | 1,001,529 | 4 USD | 251,470 | 12 USD |
| | O | 2,361,638 | 4 USD | 586,230 | 12 USD |
This Powerball jackpot is the 4th largest in Powerball lottery history and the 4th largest in U.S. lottery history.If a winner is chosen in the lottery’s next drawing Monday night, they have the option to either receive the $1.60 Billion in 30 annual installments over 29 years, before taxes, or take an up-front pretax lump sum payment of $735.3 million in cash.
A mandatory federal 24% tax withholding would reduce the lump sum earnings to $1.22 billion, while a federal marginal rate of up to 37%—depending on the winner’s taxable income this year—could reduce it to as low as $1.01 billion.
Additionally, lottery winnings are subject to taxes in some states including Arizona, with an additional 2.5% taken and New York, with an additional 10.9% taken, plus some cities like New York City impose an additional tax on lottery winnings.
The last time a Powerball jackpot was hit was 06/09/2025. Since then, there have been 45 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner, the lottery said.
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.
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The drawings of Powerball still keep rolling, and the Powerball lottery is up to $1.60 Billion (Monday, December 22, 2025). Who will get the lucky’s god favour?
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