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Powerball jackpot reaches $700 million for Saturday’s drawing

August 22, 2025 Posted by NC Lottery at 11:59 AM
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Powerball just crossed another milestone as North Carolinians can play for a $700 million prize on Saturday, the largest jackpot in over a year.

A winner could claim the jackpot as a $700 million annuity or $316 million in cash.

Saturday’s jackpot weighs in as the largest since the April 6, 2024 Powerball drawing when an Oregon man won a $1.3 billion jackpot.

Check out how North Carolinians win when they play Powerball:

  • 42,452: That’s the total number of winning tickets in Wednesday’s Powerball drawing
  • $12.6 million: That’s the estimate of how much money has been raised for education during the current Powerball run

North Carolina lottery players have another chance to play for a big prize with Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot standing at a $234 million annuity or $105.1 million cash.

Players can buy Powerball tickets at any lottery retail location, through Online Play on the lottery’s website, www.nclottery.com, or from the NC Lottery Official Mobile App. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292 million.

 


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8/23/2025 06:49 - Brian T.

Par for the course. NCEL and the multi state lotteries are blatant with corruption at this point. Since the lottos conception, each year has gotten worse and worse with manipulation. It will take a fully enforced government overhaul to fix what is broken.

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