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Did anyone win the Powerball last night for August 20, 2025? What we know about Wednesday's Powerball numbers and results for $650 million lottery jackpot.
Powerball's record for top-winning prize in history was sold in 2016. Three winners from California, Florida and Tennessee shared the $1.586 billion.
The Powerball jackpot rose to $650 million for the Wednesday, Aug. 20, drawing after no one won the top prize on Monday, Aug. 18.
The Powerball grand prize “jackpot” is only an estimate of the prize pool’s Treasury bond returns if the winner takes the payment in a 30-year annuity.
Powerball is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Odds of winning the Powerball jackpot is 1 in 292 million and tickets are $2 apiece.
The latest Powerball numbers for Monday's $1.5 billion prize have been selected, but no one got all of them. Monday night's winning numbers were 16, 34, 46, 55, 67 and Powerball number 14.
WHAT WE FOUND How much money you get out of the Powerball jackpot is dependent on how you choose to claim your winnings: an annuity of 30 payments over 29 years, or a lump sum of cash all at once.
WHAT WE FOUND How much money you get out of the Powerball jackpot is dependent on how you choose to claim your winnings: an annuity of 30 payments over 29 years, or a lump sum of cash all at once.