A Powerball player there holds the winning ticket from Wednesday night's drawing for the game's $1.817 billion jackpot. The winner, who so far hasn't gone public, can choose between an annuitized prize of $1.817 billion or a lump sump payment of $834.9 million (both prize options are before taxes).

Here are the latest winning lottery numbers from Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025. You can find all the lottery results, including Powerball and Mega Millions, each night on PennLive. Generative AI was used to pull in the lottery results for this story, based on information from the Pennsylvania Lottery, which was reviewed and edited by Advance Media staff.

There were eight Powerball tickets worth $50,000 sold in Massachusetts, according to the state lottery. To win $50,000, players need to match four numbers and the Powerball. The odds of doing so are 1 in 913,