The long-awaited Powerball jackpot has finally been claimed, ending a three-month drought of big winners. The estimated $1.8 billion prize, the second-largest in U.S. lottery history, will be split between two winning tickets sold in Missouri and Texas.
$1.8 Billion Powerball Jackpot Winners
The winning numbers for the Saturday, September 6, 2025 drawing were: 11, 23, 44, 61, 62, and the Powerball was 17.
The massive jackpot came after 41 consecutive drawings without a grand prize winner, a testament to the game’s astronomical odds of 1 in 292.2 million. While the total prize amount was an estimated $1.8 billion for a winner choosing the annuity option (30 payments over 29 years), the two winners are expected to take the more popular cash option, which for this drawing was an estimated $826.4 million, to be split equally between them.
Details about the winners—such as their names or the exact locations where the tickets were purchased—have not yet been released. Many states now allow lottery winners to remain anonymous to protect them from public scrutiny and unwanted attention.
The Top 10 Powerball Jackpots
$2.04 Billion – Nov. 7, 2022 – California
$1.787 Billion – Sept. 6, 2025 – Missouri, Texas
$1.765 Billion – Oct. 11, 2023 – California
$1.586 Billion – Jan. 13, 2016 –California, Florida, Tennessee
$1.326 Billion – April 6, 2024 – Oregon
$1.08 Billion – July 19, 2023 –California
$842.4 Million – January 1, 2024 – Michingan
$768.4 Million – March 27, 2019 – Wisconsin
$758.7 Million – Aug. 23, 2017 – Massachusetts
$754.6 Million – Feb. 6, 2023 – Washington
The win marks a significant event in lottery history, as it’s a rare occurrence for such a massive jackpot to be split between multiple winners. While the identities of the winners may remain a mystery, their lives are about to change in an unimaginably big way.
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