$1.8 billion Powerball jackpot won by a single lottery ticket sold in Arkansas

Comment #38

msmillionaire — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:23:44 GMT

Congratulwations to the Big Winner

Comment #37

Marshay2025$ — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:28:01 GMT

Amen lol.

Congrats to them

Comment #36

Bleudog101 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:16:25 GMT

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all LP members and staff.

Good thing about my winning ticket tonight, either the on-line one or store bought PB ticket is it has to be cashed in 2026...new tax year.

Comment #35

PrisonerSix — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:40:47 GMT

I've picked numbers all kinds of ways. Haven't won yet but keep trying. I might try the old addresses thing again. You never know.

Comment #34

PrisonerSix — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:36:16 GMT

If they don't want it I'll take it

Comment #33

Clarkejoseph49 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:26:16 GMT

I bet it's addresses if they didn't go for QP or Birthdays.

I've heard stories of people playing their previous addresses for their numbers in the past.

Comment #32

Todd — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:13:24 GMT

Welp, the Arkansas Lottery issued their press release, and it did not state if the winning ticket was a quick pick.

Comment #31

KY Floyd — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:49:12 GMT

You can find out what sales were on the site that shall not be named ( lotto [remove this part] report dot com) or at

https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Games/Powerball/Estimated_Jackpot.html and

https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Games/Mega_Millions/Estimated_Jackpot.html

The worksheets on the TX website don't get updated when the jackpot gets hit, so the amount spent on tickets for the last drawing will only be an estimate. The site that shall not be name... [ More ]

Comment #30

LottoNoobie — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:18:15 GMT

Some people were complaining that the lump sum of $439 mil is too low. Not one of them has that much money in their bank account

Comment #29

dickblow — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:16:42 GMT

well at least it wasnt calfornia

Comment #28

Alfawinner — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 21:31:20 GMT

Haha, is that your unhealed trauma or projection ?,

coming after

Good luck to stay small, bud,

the world is waiting for me to transform this

entire existence,

old systems are falling away...

new world is COMING

Comment #27

noise-gate — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:56:25 GMT

* Sounds like you didn't stay at the HolidayInn Express last night.

Comment #26

JackpotWanna — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:39:26 GMT

Congrats

Comment #25

wander73 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 06:56:21 GMT

the 47 and 18. i should have known that too.

Comment #24

Alfawinner — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 05:16:01 GMT

Where do you see how many combinations were bought?

also it could be copy cats combos

Comment #23

Alfawinner — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 05:14:39 GMT

Read again and see why

because of my work

bc nobody else can change the world like me, and it's not

about lottery $

talk, it's about what you do w $

donating it's not

changing the world,

you helping tiny present of people,

changing the world is about creating things that serving Society on the new level!

in terms of entitled to win

as you said

explain

some people investing a lot of $ for years and dedication to their own numbers VS

SOME PE... [ More ]

Comment #22

Jadidit — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 02:08:33 GMT

To the winner ,I'm not going to beat around the bush .My I please get a million dollars blessings or more.Thank you very much..

Comment #21

noise-gate — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:08:52 GMT

* Personally l don't know what's your story, but l have observed over the years that many lottery players feel that they entitled to win the jackpot no one else. Some may say l want to win it all so l can donate to worthy causes like : The Cancer Society, St Jude or food banks etc as though those aspirations more are exclusively theirs and theirs only.Let's just leave it at that.

Comment #20

TwoMillion — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 22:35:57 GMT

the PB conglomerate also won big (60% of the $1.8 billion jackpot).

$311 millions were spent for the jackpot or ~``150 combinations were bought.

see you again in four months (until the jackpot hits $1B mark again).

Comment #19

Alfawinner — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 22:31:21 GMT

Hahah

humans are asleep what's why

people disliked my comment

but not brave

ENOUGH TO REPLY WHY YOU DISLIKED IT

ya all triggered .

Your Christmas and other holidays are

not real,

proof??? In European culture Christmas celebrated on January 7,

If it's not enough for ya all to wake up, then what will?

I was right, as always I am

99 percent of folks

are MEDIOCRE!!!

fact! Because everyone is so small that they only need few million to stop work... [ More ]

Comment #18

Justing618 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:04:08 GMT

They can only stay anonymous for 3 years......

Comment #17

welington — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:47:13 GMT

Guess I'll get it next time.Congratulations to winner stay anonymous if you can.

Comment #16

KY Floyd — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:30:41 GMT

Would've preferred it to have set new record myself....

I suspect that nobody is more unhappy about having a winner on Wednesday that the people at PB. Not only would a rollover have let them boat about a (possibly legitimate) new record, their 50% take for Saturday's sales would probably have been on the order of $200 million more than what it will be for a $20 million jackpot.

It appears that all 292.2 million combination of tickets were sold out. The jackpot keeps growing until all 2... [ More ]

Comment #15

Todd — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:16:10 GMT

Just for the record, we don't know if it was a Quick Pick or not. The Arkansas Lottery is apparently not releasing their press release until Monday, and hopefully it will be included in the details they release.

Comment #14

billybucks — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:39:16 GMT

It did not come close to selling all the combinations. Someone just happened to get a quick pic with the right one.

Comment #13

CDanaT — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:21:41 GMT

Congrats to the lucky winner(s) that purchased their ticket in AR. May you enjoy your newly acquired wealth for a lifetime.

Comment #12

darthfury78 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 08:22:45 GMT

It appears that all 292.2 million combination of tickets were sold out. The jackpot keeps growing until all 292.2 million unique combinations are sold.

Comment #11

Alfawinner — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 07:51:55 GMT

Haha

for mediocre people

u do nothing

because you have no purpose in life besides working as slave

me( less than 1 percent population)

I need at least billion

to really start to live

and I still I won't stop

working ( creating businesses and art

, that change THE ENTIRE WORLD

Comment #10

JustMaybe — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 01:05:58 GMT

I try to be in the game all the time - I put in my $2 bait and wait.

For those that believe in the universe, what if the plan of the universe is for you to win at $20M?

But again, maybe the plan of the universe is for you to win at $250M, one just never knows.

Good luck to all and congratulations to the winner.

Comment #9

ShagE3 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:45:59 GMT

Thank you for pointing that out . ... 20 mil is nothing to sneeze at.

I don't jump in the game till the pot is at least 250 ....then I buy 1 ticket w/ pp for every 200 mil over that 250.

I know I know greedy greedy but, if I were to play and win at 20 mil ... how likely will it be that I'll win again at 2 bil?

Have a shaggy day

ShagE3

Comment #8

JustMaybe — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:27:37 GMT

I won $4, that was nice

Comment #7

adamc224 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 23:47:02 GMT

Totally happy with this one. I didn't win a dime on any of my tickets this entire run. But, I am glad it wasn't the usual suspects regarding the winning state.

Congrats to the winner(s). Long life, invest wisely, learn what it means to say no , and don't develop any expensive habits . Diversify, insure, and remember, steady wins the race.

Comment #6

Cupcake2016 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:17:08 GMT

Congratulations to the winner. I hope they do amazing things with the opportunity they have been blessed with. On a side note, I think the MUSL does a poor job of marketing the game as they really don't want people to play and or win often. Especially at low levels. 20M dollars (9.2M cash) is also life changing money. Anyone who wins that could take the cash, literally do NOTHING but invest in basic treasuries and still earn 17k dollars a month in perpetuity. Imagine spending 17k dollars and it... [ More ]

Comment #5

hearsetrax — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:36:27 GMT

Would've preferred it to have set new record myself....

but such is the nature of the PB

Comment #4

sam9009 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:27:54 GMT

Congrats.

Comment #3

jjtheprince14 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:26:58 GMT

Yay, nice! Arkansas rarely gets big winners.

Comment #2

sully16 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:22:19 GMT

Congrats to all the winners of all the nice prizes.

Comment #1

Barramundi — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:20:23 GMT

Good on them! Winning on Christmas Day, what an amazing story I hope they do wonderful things with that cash and bring joy to others with their new wealth. The greatest thing about winning one of these huge prizes would be that you can help so many others as well. Friends, family, charities, whatever you want to do is now possible. Thankfully you can remain anonymous in Arkansas, so no dealing with all the fake charity cases that would have swamped the winners if they had to name themselves.

$1.8 billion Powerball jackpot won by a single lottery ticket sold in Arkansas

Lottery Post — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:43:52 GMT

Christmas miracle: Arkansas ticket holder wakes up to $1.8 billion present

By Kate Northrop

One lucky lottery player in Arkansas woke up on Christmas morning with bragging rights to winning the second-largest lottery jackpot in world history worth a tearjerking $1.8168 billion.

On Christmas Eve, the 47th consecutive drawing in the latest Powerball jackpot run finally delivered the Christmas miracle that millions of players around the country have been crossing their fingers for.