Powerball jackpot rises to an estimated $1.3 billion after no winning ticket sold

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

Updated 1:44 AM CDT, September 2, 2025

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot rose to an estimated $1.3 billion Monday night after the winning numbers failed to appear.

The numbers drawn were 8, 23, 25, 40, 53 with the Powerball 5.

No one has matched all six numbers since May 31, allowing the jackpot to swell to $1.3 billion, which would be the fifth-largest prize in the game’s history if there is a winner in the drawing Wednesday night.

As ticket sales climbed during the past week, game officials raised the estimated Monday night jackpot to $1.1 billion before taxes.



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[bucolic_frolic]

1. when is next draw? should I play?

What good is 1.1 billion dollars? Everyone would be after you. Taxes and CFP's would never quit. A million I could fathom. But $1.1 billion won't enable me to eat more. The world will still have the same problems.

[LiberalArkie]

2. Buy and fund a public hospital? Build a public housing project?

[bucolic_frolic]

4. yeah, philanthropy is all there is

i might play. haven't played in years. at one time always played the same 1 set of numbers. time to dust them off and tempt destiny.

Wish me luck. DU T-shirts for all!

[LiberalArkie]

5. I am going to pick up one today also

[Polybius]

11. I'd eat like a champion, and sleep like a baby

[Chemical Bill]

14. I'd buy media...

And actually tell the truth.

[twodogsbarking]

3. Not the answer we were looking for.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_Ykq3PuGrw/?hl=en

[Polybius]

12. Lol, we all have different needs

Mine would be a Victorian mansion with an arcade and a vintage computer room, a few hypercars, and a supermodel wife that's half my age.

[Probatim]

6. I was at a charity run this weekend and overheard several people talking about taxes on the payout.

Everyone was angry that they'd have to give up over half in taxes if they won.

Then they moved on to the stories of how others ruined their lives after winning a big payout.

Lots of emotions covered in that group conversation.

[mercuryblues]

7. I always get irate when I hear that.

Hell, 500 million+ just dropped in their lap, be happy. Seriously the things people get angry about.

[Probatim]

8. Not just that - they have less than a snowball's chance in hell of winning and they're still upset about taxes.

[Bengus81]

9. If they're that angry over paying those taxes then give the ticket to me....

[Bengus81]

10. Yeah...because stories about how lives weren't ruined by winning is boring

So they run those "ruined lives" segments over and over. Have for decades....

[Chemical Bill]

15. I knew a guy...

Actually his mother won. They set up a trust, and the extended family has gotten an income ever since. The only way his life was ruined was people wanted to talk to him when he went out in town. I never got to talk to him after he won, because people gathered all around. Great guy....

[RussBLib]

13. more like 37%

...not "over half" in taxes.

[tavernier]

16. I read that the winning numbers for tonight, Wednesday,

were sold in New Orleans.