Did anyone win the Powerball last night for December 17, 2025? Winning Powerball numbers and drawing results for Wednesday's $1.25 billion lottery jackpot.

The Powerball jackpot has surged to a monstrous $1.5 billion — the fifth-largest in the game’s history —ahead of the holidays after no ticket matched all six winning numbers drawn on Wednesday night. The winning numbers for the estimated $1.27 billion jackpot were 25, 33, 53, 62 and 66, with red Powerball 17.

Two Powerball tickets worth $200,000 and one worth $50,000 were purchased in New Jersey for Monday night’s lottery drawing. The $200,000 tickets were both sold in Parsippany, Morris County. One was purchased at a Wawa on New Road and the other at the Shell gas station on Route 46 east, lottery officials said.

The Powerball jackpot was last won on Sept. 6 by two tickets in Missouri and Texas that split a $1.787 billion prize. The odds of winning are 1 in over 292 million, according to Powerball.

According to a press release sent by the Pennsylvania Lottery themselves, three winning Powerball with Power Play pickets were chose from Monday, Dec. 15’s drawing. These tickets which were worth $200,000 each for a total of $600,000 in winnings for the day.

A Pennsylvania Lottery retailer in Beaver County sold a Powerball ticket worth $2 million for the Dec. 13 drawing, lottery officials said.

Two Powerball tickets — including one sold near Tacoma — just missed the $1.15 billion jackpot, but still won in Washington. The tickets won $50,000 each by matching four winning numbers and the red Powerball in the drawing on Monday,

The Wednesday, Dec. 17 Powerball drawing in an estimated $1.25 billion. It is the sixth biggest Powerball and 11th largest US lottery jackpot ever.