Powerball lottery drawings are at 11 pm ET every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, including holidays.
Prizes for Florida Lottery games must be claimed within 180 days (six months) from the date of the drawing.
The last billion-dollar lottery jackpot was won Sept. 6, 2025, when 2 tickets claimed $1.8 billion Powerball prize.
Lottery fever is spiking.
Will a $2 ticket make you a multimillionaire? As they say in the lottery business, “it could happen to you.”
After no one matched all five numbers plus the Powerball in the Monday, Nov. 3, Powerball drawing for $419 million, the jackpot jumped almost $20 million overnight for Wednesday, Nov. 5.
The current jackpot has since rolled over 23 times after resetting to $20 million on Sept. 8, when a pair of tickets from Fredericksburg, Texas

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