Overview
- Monday’s winning numbers were 3, 18, 36, 41 and 54 with Powerball 7, and nine Match 5 tickets worth $1 million were sold in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York (two), Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
- The Christmas Eve draw is the 47th consecutive drawing in the current cycle, a Powerball record for most drawings without a jackpot hit.
- A winner may choose an annuitized $1.7 billion paid over 29–30 years or a one-time cash payment of about $781.3 million, both before taxes.
- The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, a design set in 2015 to allow larger jackpots while producing more smaller prizes.
- This prize ranks as the fourth-largest in Powerball history; the last jackpot was won on Sept. 6, when tickets in Missouri and Texas split $1.787 billion.