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.

The Powerball jackpot rose to $650 million for the Wednesday, Aug. 20, drawing after no one won the top prize on Monday, Aug. 18.

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 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.

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.