I won $10.  I'm going to claim it anonymously.  I don't want my neighbors to find out...😂

Goodbye 1995 Honda Accord.  Hello 2026 Acura NSX.

I hope we see a RECORD BREAKING JACKPOT!!!!! Something like $2,600,000,000! Wonder how many draws that would take?

I could live comfortably and do a tremendous amount of good in the world.

$20 or more given to a charity or to do some god somewhere now is far better than thinking about all the good that could be done if you win a jackpot.

PB will claim they set a new record if the annuity is more than the current $2.04 billion record, but to beat the $997.6 million cash value of that jackpot the annuity needs to be 2.17B, assuming the interest rate doesn't change. The PB worksheet posted on Monday afternoon suggests that a rollover on Wednesday will give us a Saturday jackpot of about $2.11 billion, but I'm not sure the people behind that estimate really have a better idea than anyone else. They came up over $60 million short on Saturday. They missed by roughly $10 million last night, but the nominal $100 million increase was really about 155.

I can't imagine that the actual increase for Wednesday won't be something bigger than the increase for Monday, and simply matching it would result in a final total of 1.745B. Last week sales for Wednesday were about 37% higher than sales for Monday jackpot, and the same 37% increase this time around would add about 73 million, so 1.815ish seems like a fairly safe bet. There's also the possibility that Christmas will make people spend more, and there's still the possibility that the very big jackpot will finally result in sales similar to the previous run. If that happens there's a pretty good chance we'd see a Saturday jackpot that  sets a new cash record by a comfortable margin. If the jackpot is a bit more than 1.8B on Wednesday night the chance of another rollover is probably about 65%.

I only got the Powerball  number . Trying to win the whole thing next draw 👍

Nothing to speak of from this participant. Onward we go for Christmas Eve.  Good luck and Merry Christmas to all.

heres to a a new PB record 

I've been right about this continual rollover so I haven't been spending very much. But I do feel there will be a winner on Christmas Eve.  It will be the "Best Christmas Ever" for someone (can you imagine!?) -- as long as they don't lose their winning ticket, that is. Ha.  Put your tickets in a safe place, people! Just in case.

Cheers!

Got the Powerball number twice, so I won $8 and only spent $6 on three tickets. So I'm profitable lol. Looking forward to Wednesday.

When I win:

1.  I will not tell anyone.

2.  Make a copy of ticket, front and back.  Do NOT sign it.

3.  Put in bank safe deposit box.

4.  Get a burner phone and call lottery attorney Kurt Panouses to claim in a Trust or LLC.

5.  Get ready to transition into my new experience.

Good to have a plan in place prior to buying the ticket.

Came home from major loss @ the gaming facility and played PB one more time on line and had the PB # for $8.

A wise old man told me years ago,

"Good things come to those who wait patiently and always be persistent on your dreams, never give up because once you do that the Defeat guy wins but as long you stay persistent you killing him slowly"

Well I'm trying to beat him and I've been very persistent actually 20 years to be exact from groups to on my own. I know my time is coming I just don't know when and I got to admit I'm close to giving up😏

I had Chinese food over the weekend and the fortune cookie said "Wednesday will be the day to express gratitude for the blessings in your life." 

I'm playing the numbers on the back of fortune plus six more lines. I hope it will come true for me or someone else.

Good luck to all.

Maybe I'm paranoid but what if something unsafe happens to the safety deposit box.

For instance ...  You say the ticket will be unsigned ...   what if someone else signs it from the bank?  Don't they need to know what is being placed?  I mean, think about it wouldn't they want to know if a firearm was being placed on there grounds?

I know I know .....  but like I said, maybe I'm paranoid.

Have a shaggy day 

ShagE3

No doubt the bank would have to get a court order to open your safety box.    Mine has two sets of keys, one they open and me with the secondary key.   Ironically sig other lost their key and one day a locksmith was in there.   Bank asked if he could make a copy of my key=yes.   Ran to the store to buy him a lotto ticket for doing something he didn't have to.

We are going to look at lights tonight, my son has to work Christmas eve so it will be quiet here .

Good luck to all and Merry Christmas.

Who can you trust?

Trust no one!

Have a shaggy day

ShagE3

P.S. YOUTUBE HAS VIDEOS OF THE LOTTERY LAWYER GIVING OUT HIS ADVICE TO POTENTIAL WINNERS. LOOK IT UP, ITS QUITE REVEALING. Search "BW Report"

One thing I truly miss is bump up to the jackpot like in the good old days.   Gone for good I'd say.   For instance 'they' bump it up to $1.8 billion prior to the drawing.    I know I'm a grumpy grouper folks saying  WTF, they went up $100 million between drawings!

You'd get a bigger jump in the days of 2 draws per week.  The additional of the Monday drawing made increases a bit more incremental.

I would like to make special mention of the #24 jackpot on the annuity list, since it is close to falling off the list.

Long-timers here may remember what an incredible watershed time that was, when Mega Millions hit $656 million. By the afternoon of the drawing, the jackpot was bumped up to $640 million.  Check out the level of excitement in the story and comments: https://www.lotterypost.com/news/244310

By draw time, when the final sales were calculated, the jackpot settled at $656 million, which was almost double of the next-largest of all time.  The legendary jackpot was won by three tickets sold in Illinois, Kansas, and Maryland: https://www.lotterypost.com/news/244363

With essentially the top 15 consisting of billion-dollar jackpots these moments in time can be lost, but that's why I first started a News section at Lottery Post back in 2003. Mainstream news often "forgets" important events in lottery history, and it was my mission back then — 22 years ago — to create an everlasting repository of lottery history, to benefit us all by not forgetting.

I find it interesting that in the 25 top draws - it's only in 2012 and 2016 that 3 tickets won the jackpot.

I know everyone wants to be the solo winner, me too, humans are inherently selfish 🤣

But again it spreads more joy when we have triple winners or even more.

I will get my tickets for the Wednesday draw, see if I be the solo winner 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Are you still a billionaire when the only time you see your name and a B together is on a big, fake, fancy check?

Most you'd be getting is less than half that at $492M.

Good luck all 🍀🎅🏻

Just curious why no one ever mentions playing the Double Play option for PB on here. The secondary prizes are much better at the same odds, and for $1 more, why not?

True, in reality if someone asks you or suspects you being the billionaire from the lottery you can honestly reply that they are mistaken ( because in reality you are a multi millionaire) but they don't need to know that as they didn't ask you if you were a multi millionaire.

Have a shaggy day!

ShagE3

i think we're going to have 2 winners on nye.   i really do.

Double Play isn't available everywhere. We don't habe it in Louisiana.

We may have 3 winners on  Christmas.

Todd, thanks so much for the memories.    I remember that all so well with the hundreds of comments.

If they gave me the 92M minus the 4, I will gladly take it and run like crazy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

However, your point is very valid, most players get hyped with the annuity and forgot to look at the lump sum value which they would mostly take.

I am glad where I live there is no state tax on the lottery.

I remember this draw. I traveled across state lines because we didn't offer mega millions. At this time the country was recovering from a recession. But outside of that, what's the significance to that draw?

What made the drawing so special, IMHO is the amount of comments that came on LP.   Todd correct me if I'm wrong but memory serves it was the sheer volume of commenters.

Now perhaps lottery fatigue comes in to play.

Ok let's make a quick Vote here Lump Sum or Annuity   .  For me Annuity so l can use my Regular bank no need for Stress and headache 🤠🧑‍🎄🐋🇺🇸🐬🥳🎉

   On the other hand if l Dethrown Edwin Castro l will go with Lump Sum and buy my house next to his house 😜😇👍🌈🇺🇸 Just a little bit Bigger ,😁

Cash ... No one in my family is under 50 so it's risky but cash for me. 

Have a shaggy day 

ShagE3

To whoever down voted this, you must think charities can run on 'gonnas' so from here on may you be as lucky as you are generous. You've created your own karmic debt, good luck dealing with it. If you have no idea what a karmic debt is it's kind of a self pox.

it all setup for christmas eve or if no one wins hopefully go to news years eve we will see good luck everyone!get that money!

8/30/25 $1B ~$256M (ticket sales then)
9/1/25 $1.1B ~$245M
9/3/25 $1.4B ~$355M
9/6/25 $1.8B ~$538M

12/20/25 $1.5B ~$256M
12/22/25 $1.6B ~$225M

-players are running out of money .:)

-PB is milking the game by incrementing the jackpot with the teaser $100M

Yeah, if this happens again next year ... I surmise there will be discussions about changing things up.

Let's hope they don't go the mega millions route with $5 tickets.

Maybe they could axe the Monday drawing ....

Maybe they could offer 3 dollar tickets with pp included on every ticket 

Maybe they keep the 10 x pp and make it available @ 300 and under or available all at any jackpot amount 

Maybe maybe maybe

Have a shaggy day

ShagE3

I was just thinking what are some of your eccentricities as it pertains to lotto like pb and mm?

Assuming you get quicpick do you not know your numbers until the time of the drawing .... so that you will be surprised?

Do you eat liverwurst or oliveloaf sandwiches prior to purchasing tickets?

Do you drink birch beer, moxie, creme soda or sasparilla with the aforementioned sandwich choices ?

Do you wear sandals at the time of ticket purchase?  Even in subzero weather?

Do you call your uncle Wally or aunt  Gertrude on the jackpot day to say hello and get caught up on family matters?  On this note do you mention to Wally that Gertrude has been having a fling with the butcher at your local grocery store?

Have a shaggy day

ShagE

ShagE3   Nothing that you mentioned but I remember reading that jackpot winners had drank something orange right before or after they played their tickers.

* This jackpot run ends on Wednesday night, as Gandalf the gray said..

Hmmmm

We are getting a juicer tomorrow ... 

Suddenly I feel like making carrot juice!

Have a shaggy day

ShagE3

Not my all time fave drawing????!!! It brought out all the colorful nuts. Something was in the air that has never been repeated.  And it was the only drawing that I ever watched the live drawing. Still remember the first number drawn.  Where is our buddy Mirlande at today??? I remember the photo of the 3  anonymous Maryland school employees wearing gloves while holding the oversized check.

To the phantom down voter, I wonder if all those in your real life are getting a kick out of your childishness, a sure indicated of a mental midget.

I think we all know it is one of a couple of people who are always hysterically whining about their down votes.

I up voted you.

Thank you Artist77. I might have it down to two people who are both MM haters.

* Sorry to break it to you but down voting folks in my opinion is silly. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, regardless of what people may think or say. Besides, no one is that important, we all dust after all.

I was going to say something about that draw but you beat me to it.

What I will say is that if they bring back that matrix and charge $5 per ticket for it while properly adjusting the prize structure to match the ticket price then I would pay $5 for that game.

After a lot of back and forth with my Fiduciary  Financial Advisor aka AI - I will take the lump sum.

Put 50% in low cost ETF and 50% in T.Bills and Notes for interest income.

I even have the exact ETFs to buy and the allocation.

"One thing I truly miss is bump up to the jackpot like in the good old days.   Gone for good I'd say. "

Considering that they've done it 4 times in the last 4 months it hardly seems like it no longer happens. Changing to 3 drawings per week has a minor effect, but the real issue is that lottery sales per drawing are generally slower than they used to be. Even so, the current PB run is a rare exception (as of now) for not bumping  some of the jackpots for runs that made it past the billion dollar mark.

It certainly doesn't help when slowing sales make it harder for them to accurately predict what sales will be. You can't bump up the jackpot on the last day when you've overestimated sales and don't even have enough to pay the (first) jackpot you've advertised. I think they may be feeling gun shy and are being overly conservative with the advertised 1.7B  for Wednesday, so I think there's a good chance that we'll see a bump by noon or early afternoon this time around.

"I find it interesting that in the 25 top draws - it's only in 2012 and 2016 that 3 tickets won the jackpot. "

Both of those drawings had huge sales. PB sold about 635 million tickets at $2 each, with the current odds. MM sold almost 652 million tickets, at $1 each, with odds of 1 in 176 million. For PB the chances of 1, 2 or 3 winners was 24.7%, 26.9%, and 19.5%. While 2 winners was most likely, 3 winners was fairly likely. The lower odds of MM made 652 million tickets equivalent to nearly 1100 PB ticket with the current odds, and the chances of 1, 2, 3, or 4 winners was about 9.2%, 16.9%, 20.9%, and 19.3%, making 3 winners exactly what probability suggested. Recently even jackpots of 1.5B or more usually don't sell  more than 200 million tickets. Castro's prize set the recent high point, with sales of 280 million the Saturday before he won and 276 million on the Monday when he won. For 280 million tickets  the chance of 1 winner is about 36.75% and the chance of any number of multiple winners is 24.9%.. I think their numbers are pretty wild guesses, but in the unlikely event  the current run makes it into the new year the most recent worksheet estimates that sales for Saturday 1/3 would be about 773 million tickets (for an advertised jackpot of about 3.96B). If that happens the chance of at least one winner would be about 92.6%. There would be a 19.25% chance of a single winner and a 73.45% chance of multiple winners.

"Are you still a billionaire when the only time you see your name and a B together is on a big, fake, fancy check? "

Nope. Unless you've got a lot of money from some other source you'd need to be the sole winner of  close to $4 billion, depending on state taxes, to be a real billionaire. Best case scenario at current interest rates is to win an advertised jackpot of $3.454 billion, takes the $1587.3 million cash and only pay 37% in federal taxes.

"But outside of that, what's the significance to that draw? "

That $656 million jackpot set a record by a very substantial margin. I believe the previous record was a MM jackpot of $380 million.

" I might have it down to two people "

Looks like you're gonna need  bigger list.

  Clean sheet , Most people play $2 Powerball instead of $3 even though if the fit 5 plus 0 that third dollar would mean winning $2M instead of $1M.  Most here for whatever reason are hyper paranoid about playing anything for $1 more.

Most people playing now are playing it for the huge jackpot. $30 is better spent on 15 regular tickets, not 10 PP tickets.

Stay focused & be prepared ......

and may the winning ticket belong to one of us ....

I have a ticket with two lines.

Grabbed a 5 pack for this draw. Good luck, Merry Christmas and thank you all for donating to the TN winner fund.

  The power play is not worth the extra dollar. Those dollars should be used to buy more 2.00 tickets. They wouldn't offer the power play if it was more beneficial to the player than to the lotteries overall volume of sales.

I wasn't referring to Power Play, rather Double Play...

 The double play is not worth the extra dollar also. It wouldn't be offered if it were.

Todd's answer was much more in aligned to what I was saying.

Many of us are grateful for your vision of a lottery Hub for the posterity of Lottery History. I dont post often, but I do visit the site often to read and stay informed. Ever grateful. Thanks

I need this to get on the other side of that K-shaped recovery

True but what is more likely to happen, hitting all six numbers or hitting five and not the Powerball? All 15 regular tickets are up against 292.2 million odds.

Got it but not all states have Double Play.

It's not a big deal. I just asked because it IS available in 24 states and 3 territories, so I would think that Double Play would apply to at least some of the people on here. I think it's was odd that it never gets mentioned. I didn't realize that everyone had to get a participation trophy to talk about it, lol.  (ammirite, Cali? )

No problem, bot now you are not only up against 292.2 million but also 7.3 million considering the TN population.  🤔.  Good Luck with all that.

'Luckily' Kentucky followed Indiana in offering Double Play.  From what I can see on PB website they don't have those results, perhaps to avoid confusion?  Let's hope they don't make it mandatory and raise the price from $4 to $5 in 2026.

Anyway, Merry Christmas, Frohe Weinachten, Feliz Navidad, Happy Kwanzaa or just simply Happy Holidays!

In spite of the accusation implying that I was the one who down voted you, just like I am smart enough to know that you didn't continually down vote me, you're smart enough to know that I didn't down vote you.

my prediction is number 38 would be drawn tonight.

good luck everyone. don't gamble grandma's insulin money. .:)

* Thank you L. I have endured that BS for over 10 years & the first experience of a grass burn &  it's a seismic event. Just be grateful for being alive.. on that note.

Todd,

Ahhhh I remember it so well!!!!

All the excitement.....it's what makes this whole thing (and the community) fun!

Thanks for all the you (I really appreciate it)!

The population of Tennessee has nothing to do with the probability of one person from TN winning the jackpot.

The most likely outcome is to win nothing.

The second most likely outcome is to win $4 on a $2 ticket. If you pay the extra dollar per ticket for PowerPlay, the second most likely outcome is to win $8. The third most likely outcome is to win $12.

Lotterologist, Right you are.  😊

Tucker Black, what you said is true but every pit boss and shift boss I worked for said any $1 bet that might win a million dollars is a good bet. This all started when the casino I was working in at the time offered to pay $1 million if any piece of Skylab landed on the casino property! If I remember right it landed somewhere in the ocean close to Australia. I didn't say most likely to happen, I said more likely to happen between hitting all six numbers or hitting five and no Powerball.    😊

To each their own.....but I wish someone on here will win it....,especially if you chatted over the past 15 years...

Wow, no bumps in the jackpot anymore these days. Looks like no one cares about Powerball anymore, but I care. I still care.

Hi folks 

Merry Christmas Eve!

So ...  What do you think the final jackpot will reach tonight? Will it not make the estimation, will it exceed the estimation or will it pretty much hit the mark?

T-  minus  one hour forty minutes to you know what.

Have a shaggy day

ShagE3

I was kidding because CDanaT thanked everyone for donating to the TN winner. Lighten up a little will you. Some Native American tribes have a belief that after someone dies the first thing they say is "Why was I so serious".

Al Yankovic and his parody of Beat It, Eat It?

"Wow, no bumps in the jackpot anymore these days. Looks like no one cares about Powerball anymore "

Sales are slower  than they used to be, but enough people care to buy about 125 million tickets for tonight's drawing, based on the latest sales estimate.

"What do you think the final jackpot will reach tonight? Will it not make the estimation, will it exceed the estimation or will it pretty much hit the mark? "

The worksheet posted on Monday estimated the funded annuity at just a hair shy of 1.72B.  The worksheet posted this afternoon, after a day and a half's worth of sales, estimated the funded annuity at a bit over 1.72B. That makes it seem wildly unlikely that they won't be well past the advertised 1.7B. The last Saturday to Saturday sales increase was up 50% and Monday to Monday  was up 74%. The current sales estimate for tonight is a 55% increase over last Wednesday, so I can't imagine 1.72 isn't still at least a bit conservative. A last minute sales rush, or just the sales they expected but didn't want to count on could  make it even bigger.  I'm surprised they didn't bump the advertised jackpot up to 1.75.

Just a heads-up regarding our upcoming schedule for news (whether the jackpot is won tonight or not).  We'll be taking Christmas off, and your next Powerball news story will come on Friday, Dec. 26.

Good luck to all, and Merry Christmas!

Enjoy your holliday.

If someone here won it they would follow the age old advise of not telling anyone - as such we will never know.

That is true. It would be cool to see someone here win it or someone in a state that hasn't won in a long time.

Just tried to check the Powerball site and it's down. Everyone trying to get the numbers I guess.

We'll have to wait and see if anyone has had the best Christmas ever.

Numbers are up. I didn't win again. Now waiting to see if it rolls again.

Nothing won for $$. Had the 25 on 2 lines and the 52 on another.... Saturday ?? Maybe

I have 8 lines and no winners this time. Saturday might be better.

noise-gate

I'm sure you are familiar with Yankovic's One More Minute. I posted about it befoire anbd someone said 

'Not one of Taylor Swifts' break up songs coulkd ever compete with this'.

Well one or more winners, all the PB website shows right now is the next jackpot is $20 million, down from $1.8 billion. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone.

Someone won! Single ticket sold in AR......

Arkansas is one of the states that allow a winner to remain anonymous.  

Congratulations to the winner. I hope this win will bring them great joy and happiness. They had the best Christmas ever.

Congrats to the lucky AR Buzzards  🫡

lottery is such  Rip all that money for one player or person lottery is such a scam too

It's only a scam when you're not the one holding the winning ticket.

Happy Christmas fellow posters,

A winning ticket in Arkansas ..... NOT California. 

Let's hope that this person's story which has just begun will be a smooth one guided by wisdom.

Well now I wait till mm doubles in size to play again.

Have a shaggy day

ShagE3

I seen one ticket midwest

"I can't imagine that the actual increase for Wednesday won't be something bigger than the increase for Monday, and simply matching it would result in a final total of 1.745B. Last week sales for Wednesday were about 37% higher than sales for Monday jackpot, and the same 37% increase this time around would add about 73 million, so 1.815ish seems like a fairly safe bet. "

Now that they had about that same increase I'm even more surprised that we never saw a bump yesterday. I think they really must be losing their confidence in  their sales estimates after missing them a few times. 

NY Lotto also got hit last night at $13.9 million or about $7.3 cash. I won a couple of bucks on PB, but now I'll be saving a bunch of money until at least late February while waiting for one of the games to  get big enough to bother.

Curious if anyone saw any news coverage of where the winning ticket was sold?   Looked up Arkansas lottery and they won't be in the office until Monday.

I'm with KY Floyd on holding off until the jackpots get up there.   Now will transition to Lucky 4 Life and Cashball 225 as well as dabbling in Pick 3.   All are non RNG, be that as it may.

 You're both too old to be passing on any drawing especially if you have even one set of regular numbers. I'm as greedy as the next person but I fail to see anything wrong with winning 50 million or 20 million. In fact it would be much easier to deal with.

Winning ticket sold @ USA Murphy gas station Cabot, Arkansas.   About 26 miles for Little Rock.