Saturday’s Powerball Jackpot Swells To $1B As Lottery Fever Spreads In CA

CALIFORNIA, CA — Yes, the odds are against California Powerball players claiming the estimated $1 billion jackpot in Saturday’s drawing, but four winners of the only six $1 billion jackpots in history were from the Golden State. The grand prize, which swelled from an earlier estimated $950 million, is generating a flurry of ticket sales.

The $1 billion jackpot has an estimated cash value of $453.1 million. Saturday’s jackpot ranks as the game’s sixth-largest prize and the biggest advertised jackpot in more than a year.

The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, while the odds of winning any prize are much less at 1 in 24.9.

In Wednesday's drawing, there was no jackpot winner in California, but there were 328,134 winning tickets, according to the California Lottery.

If you want to test your luck, Powerball vendors in California are found on the California Lottery website. Tickets must be purchased by 7 p.m. PT to be considered in Saturday’s drawing at 10:59 p.m. ET.

The jackpot climbed again after no player matched the winning numbers Wednesday: white balls 9, 12, 22, 41, 61 and red Powerball 25. The Power Play multiplier was 4.

Six tickets won prizes worth $1 million or more in Wednesday’s Powerball drawing, after matching all five white balls. The $1 million-winning tickets were sold in Arizona, New York and Virginia. Three tickets in Mississippi, Ohio and Virginia increased their winnings to $2 million by including the Power Play option for $1 more.

Forty tickets won $50,000 prizes and 10 tickets won $200,000 prizes.

In the Double Play drawing, a ticket in South Dakota won a $500,000 prize after matching all five black balls. Double Play is a $1 add-on feature that allows players to play their Powerball numbers again, in a separate drawing for a chance to win up to $10 million. Double Play drawings are live-streamed on Powerball.com after the main drawing.

Saturday’s Powerball drawing will be the 39th drawing since the jackpot was last won in California on May 31, 2025.

Here are the top 10 Powerball jackpots in the history of the game:

1. $2.04 billion, Nov. 7, 2022 (California)
2. $1.765 billion, Oct. 11, 2023 (California)
3. $1.586 billion, Jan. 13, 2016 (California, Florida, Tennessee)
4. $1.326 billion, April 6, 2024 (Oregon)
5. $1.08 billion, July 19, 2023 (California)
6. $1 billion (estimated), Aug. 30, 2025
7. $842.4 million, Jan. 1 1, 2024 (Michigan)
8. $768.4 million, March 27, 2019 (Wisconsin)
9. $758.7 million, Aug. 23, 2017 (Massachusetts)
10. $754.6 million, Feb. 6, 2023 (Washington)

Powerball tickets without the add-ons are $2 per play. Tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. More than half of all proceeds from the sale of a Powerball ticket remain in the jurisdiction where the ticket was sold. Since its first drawing in 1992, the Powerball game has helped generate more than $36 billion for good causes supported by U.S. lotteries.

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