Who won $1.40 billion Powerball lottery Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025?

In November 2022, Edwin Castro of Altadena, California, became the biggest lottery winner in US history with $2.04 billion Powerball.

For 13th time in history, a lottery jackpot reached $1 billion. Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, Powerball drawing is among biggest prizes ever.
Powerball drawings are held at 11 p.m. ET Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, including holidays.
2 Florida Publix stores and a Kroger in Michigan sold winning billion-dollar lottery tickets. See our list.

Lottery fever is spiking! And with a jackpot near $2 billion, it’s easy to see why.

Will a $2 Powerball ticket make you a billionaire? As they say in the lottery business, “it could happen to you.” A Florida ticketholder − for the third drawing in a row − didn’t win $1 billion, but came away with a $1 million prize.

After no one matched all five numbers plus the Powerball in the Monday, Sept. 1, Labor Day Powerball drawing, the jackpot jumped from $1.10 billion to $1.40 billion for Wednesday, Sept. 3. The one-time lump-sum cash option jumped pretty high, too: From $498.4 million to $634.3 million.

Sadly, for Powerball-winner hopefuls, no one matched all five numbers plus the Powerball in the Wednesday, Sept. 3, Powerball drawing. The jackpot for Saturday, Sept. 6, is now $1.70 billion with a $770.3 million one-time lump-sum option.

The total is not only climbing up the Top 10 biggest Powerball lottery jackpots of all-time (see below), and it’s quite close to the largest lottery prize in U.S. history.

Did anyone win Powerball last night?

Wednesday, Sept. 3, winning Powerball numbers were 3-16-29-61-69 and the Powerball was 22. Power Play was 2x. There was no billion-dollar lottery winner for this draw, rather, there’s yet another chance at a higher windfall. Though there was no perfect match, there were several secondary winners. Four tickets purchased in Michigan, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming matched five numbers plus the Power Play to win $2 million, and 11 tickets from these states matched five numbers to win $1 million: two in California, two in Georgia, a ticket in Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

In case you’re wondering, Monday’s Labor Day Powerball numbers (Sept. 1, 2025) were 8-23-25-40-53 and the Powerball was 5. Power Play was 3x. Though those numbers meant a rollover, it wasn’t all bad news: There were 12 million-dollar-plus winners in Monday’s Powerball including a Florida ticket that matched 5. The other $1 million winners bought their tickets in California, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey (2 tickets), New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Even more lucky were those whose ticket matched 5 plus the Power Play. Those tickets, which won $2 million prizes, were purchased in Montana and North Carolina.

The same phenomenon occured in the Saturday, Aug. 30, Powerball drawing, too: Though it was a rollover with the Powerball numbers of 3-18-22-27-33 and the Powerball was 17, Power Play at 3x, there were 12 prizes of at least $1 million in that Saturday night Powerball drawing. A ticket from Florida matched 5 for a $1 million prize as did four tickets from California and one each from Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.

Because the Power Play was 3x, those lucky winners who bought the three Powerball tickets that matched 5 plus the Power Play got more money. Those were purchased in Colorado, Indiana and New Hampshire.

Tickets start at $2 a piece. Below is what to know about lottery odds, how long to claim the cash option if you bought a ticket in Florida, and what happens to unclaimed prize money, according to the Florida Lottery.

Good luck!

What were the winning Powerball numbers for Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025? 3-16-29-61-69 and the Powerball was 22

Powerball drawings are at 11 p.m. ET Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, including holidays. Wednesday, Sept. 3, winning Powerball numbers were 3-16-29-61-69 and the Powerball was 22. Power Play was 2x. We’ll see if there’s a billion-dollar lottery winner days after the Labor Day holiday or another rollover.

This series is the first billion-dollar lottery jackpot for Mega Millions and Powerball for 2025.

After weeks of rollovers, the last Powerball streak ended Saturday, May 31, 2025, when a ticket in California matched all five numbers plus the Powerball to win an estimated $207 million jackpot. That prize had a cash option of $92.7 million, according to the Powerball website.

Tickets purchased in Florida and New Hampshire also won big, they both matched 5 plus the Power Play for $2 million prizes. The Florida Quick Pick ticket came from Peacock Liquor, 270 N.W. Peacock Blvd., Port St. Lucie.

On Friday, Aug. 29, 2025, a day before the Aug. 30, 2025, Powerball drawing, lottery officials announced this series crossed the billion-dollar mark. On Wednesday, Aug. 27, the jackpot jumped to $950 million, and ticket sales ahead of the Aug. 30 drawing pushed it to record numbers.

Below is a recap of Powerball drawings and how long it took to grow from $20 million to the current billion-dollar prize.

When is the next Powerball drawing? What are the chances of winning Powerball lottery?

Powerball drawings are held at 11 p.m. ET Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, including holidays. According to Powerball.com, players have a 1 in 292.2 million chance to match all six numbers. Prizes range from $2 to the grand prize jackpot, which varies.

The next Powerball drawing will be Saturday, Sept. 6.

Prizes for Florida Lottery must be claimed within 180 days (six months) from the date of the drawing. To claim a single-payment cash option, a winner has within the first 60 days after the applicable draw date to claim it.

The Florida Lottery says its scratch-off tickets and Fast Play game prizes “must be claimed within 60 days of the official end-of-game date. Once the applicable time period has elapsed, the related Florida Lottery ticket will expire.”

Can Florida lottery winners remain anonymous?

According to Florida Lottery’s website, winners cannot remain anonymous: “Florida law mandates that the Florida Lottery provide records containing information such as the winner’s name, city of residence; game won, date won, and amount won to any third party who requests the information.”

However, the site states, the “names of lottery winners claiming prizes of $250,000 or greater will be temporarily exempt from public disclosure for 90 days from the date the prize is claimed, unless otherwise waived by the winner.”

Lottery experts and lawyers have said there are ways to remain anonymous if you win.

What are the Top 10 biggest Powerball jackpots in history?

Here are the Top 10 Powerball jackpots in the history of the game as of Sept. 3, 2025:

10. $754.6 million — Feb. 6, 2023; Washington
9. $758.7 million — Aug. 23, 2017; Massachusetts
8. $768.4 million — March 27, 2019; Wisconsin
7. $842.4 million — Jan. 1, 2024; Michigan
6. $1.08 billion — July 19, 2023; California
5. $1.33 billion — April 6, 2024; Oregon
4. $1.586 billion — Jan. 13, 2016; California, Florida and Tennessee
3. $1.70 billion — Sept. 6, 2025; TBD
2. $1.765 billion Powerball drawing — Oct. 11, 2023; California
1. $2.04 billion — Nov. 7, 2022; California

When did lotto jackpots hit $1 billion or more for Mega Millions and Powerball? What are the biggest lottery jackpots in US history?

As of Sept. 3, 2025, there have been 13 lottery jackpots that have reached or surpassed $1 billion. Only once has a jackpot surpassed $2 billion. These are the biggest lottery jackpots in U.S. history.

$2.04 billion Powerball prize, Nov. 7, 2022, Edwin Castro of Altadena, California
$1.73 billion Powerball prize, Oct. 11, 2023, Theodorus Struyck of California (ticket purchased at Midway Market in California)
$1.70 billion Powerball prize, Sept. 6, 2025, TBD
$1.586 billion Powerball prize, Jan. 13, 2016, Marvin and Mae Acosta of California, Maureen Smith and David Kaltschmidt of Melbourne Beach, Florida, and John and Lisa Robinson of Munford, Tennessee
$1.58 billion Mega Millions prize, Aug. 8, 2023, Saltines Holdings LLC of Miami, Florida
$1.537 billion Mega Millions prize, Oct. 23, 2018, won by an anonymous player in South Carolina
$1.348 billion Mega Millions prize, Jan. 13, 2023, LaKoma Island Investments, LLC, with the ticket purchased in Lebanon, Maine
$1.337 billion Mega Millions prize, July 29, 2022, won by an anonymous partnership with a ticket purchased in Des Plaines, Illinois
$1.326 billion Powerball prize, April 6, 2024, Cheng and Duanpen Saephan and Laiza Chao of Oregon
$1.269 billion Mega Millions, Dec. 27, 2024, Rosemary Casarotti of California
$1.128 billion Mega Millions prize, March 26, 2024, won by an anonymous winner in New Jersey with the ticket purchased at ShopRite Liquor No. 781 in Neptune Township, New Jersey
$1.08 billion Powerball prize, July 19, 2023, Yanira Alvarez of California
$1.050 billion Mega Millions prize, Jan. 22, 2021, won by the Wolverine FLL Club of Oakland County, Michigan

(This story was updated to include new information.)

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