{"id":64290,"date":"2025-12-18T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64290\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:36:08","slug":"1m-winning-powerball-ticket-sold-in-pennsylvania-jackpot-soars-to-estimated-1-5b-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64290\/","title":{"rendered":"$1M winning Powerball ticket sold in Pennsylvania; Jackpot soars to estimated $1.5B \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerball.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.powerball.com\/\">Powerball jackpot<\/a> has grown to an estimated $1.5 billion after there was no winner in Wednesday night\u2019s drawing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">It is the fifth-largest jackpot in the history of the Powerball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Although no one won the big prize in the drawing, someone in Pennsylvania did win $1 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">It\u2019s not known yet where the ticket was sold, so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerball.com\/check-your-numbers?gc=powerball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.powerball.com\/check-your-numbers?gc=powerball\">check your numbers!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The winning numbers were 25, 33, 53, 62, 66 and the Powerball was 18. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Channel 11 is your home for the Pennsylvania Lottery. You can watch the next drawing on WPXI Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Powerball jackpot has grown to an estimated $1.5 billion after there was no winner in Wednesday night\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4738,10405,12456,15176,529,60,1707,4741,13078,14465,2091,2265,15177,7159,1718,1408,2080,15178,15179,15180,7160,7162,83,15181,28,30,29,15182,15183,1407,867,65,5381,7175,15184,7179,15185],"class_list":{"0":"post-64290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-background","9":"tag-bank","10":"tag-banking","11":"tag-banknote","12":"tag-bill","13":"tag-business","14":"tag-cash","15":"tag-concept","16":"tag-currency","17":"tag-dollar","18":"tag-drawing","19":"tag-finance","20":"tag-financial","21":"tag-gambling","22":"tag-investment","23":"tag-lottery","24":"tag-lottery-ticket","25":"tag-lottery-tickets","26":"tag-lottery-win","27":"tag-lottery-winner","28":"tag-lotto","29":"tag-lucky","30":"tag-money","31":"tag-paper","32":"tag-pennsylvania","33":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","34":"tag-pennsylvania-news","35":"tag-playing-the-lottery","36":"tag-power-ball","37":"tag-powerball","38":"tag-rich","39":"tag-salary","40":"tag-success","41":"tag-wealth","42":"tag-wealthy","43":"tag-winning","44":"tag-winning-numbers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}