{"id":56078,"date":"2025-11-30T04:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/56078\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T04:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:20:14","slug":"powerball-jackpot-balloons-to-whopping-719m-heres-when-to-hear-the-winning-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/56078\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerball Jackpot balloons to whopping $719M \u2014 here&#8217;s when to hear the winning numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Powerball Jackpot has swelled to a whopping $719 million after failing to crown a winner in almost three months \u2013 making it the third biggest prize of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Winning numbers will be announced on Saturday at 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The winner can either choose to receive <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/26\/us-news\/powerball-jackpot-ballooned-to-whopping-681m-ahead-of-pre-thanksgiving-drawing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the jackpot <\/a>in annual payments over 30 years \u2014 and pocket some $24 million per year before taxes \u2014 or take the cash up front.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37800391\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/richard-b-levine-photo-richard-116247440_f6d78f.jpg\" alt=\"Powerball tickets\" class=\"wp-image-37800391\"  \/>The Powerball jackpot is now at a whopping $719 million Corbis via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The one-time cash payout would be an estimated $333 million before taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The lump sum is less than the advertised jackpot because the advertised amount is the total annuitized payout after 30 annual payments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/12\/lifestyle\/can-ai-predict-winning-lottery-numbers-what-the-experts-say\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Powerball ticket<\/a> with five out of six winning numbers, worth $979,462, was sold at a 7-Eleven on Los Alisos Boulevard in Mission Viejo, California, Wednesday, according to the California Lottery website. However, a winner has not yet come forward to claim the prize.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest jackpot in lottery history was just over $2 billion, which was won by 31-year-old California man Edwin Castro in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37800390\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/customer-rubs-lottery-tickets-bluebird-110764122.jpg\" alt=\"A customer rubbing lottery tickets on a bluebird statue for good luck at a liquor store.\" class=\"wp-image-37800390\"  \/>It is the third biggest prize of 2025.  AP<\/p>\n<p>Castro went for the $998 million lump sum, and took home about $628 million after taxes, according to the California Lottery.<\/p>\n<p>He was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/12\/24\/news\/powerball-billionaire-edwin-castro-wont-back-down-in-lawsuit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sued by another California man<\/a>, Jose Rivera, who claimed he was in fact the one who bought the winning ticket at Joe\u2019s Service Center in Altadena, and that it was stolen by his landlord.<\/p>\n<p>A Los Angeles County judge tossed the suit in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>If the current jackpot is taken as a lump sum up front, the winner would take home $210 million at a federal marginal rate as high as 37%, plus state taxes depending where they live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Powerball Jackpot has swelled to a whopping $719 million after failing to crown a winner in almost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30448,617,9,11,10,30449,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-56078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-edwin-castro","9":"tag-lottery","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-powerball","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}