{"id":1900,"date":"2025-09-09T01:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2025-09-09T01:10:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:10:56","slug":"1-8-billion-powerball-jackpot-winners-revealed-find-out-who-took-it-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/?p=1900","title":{"rendered":"$1.8 BILLION Powerball Jackpot Winners Revealed \u2013 Find Out Who Took It Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The record-breaking <strong>$1.8 billion Powerball jackpot<\/strong> has finally been claimed\u2014and the winners are officially revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two lucky tickets matched all six numbers in what became the <strong>second-largest jackpot in U.S. history<\/strong>. The winning tickets were sold in <strong>Fredericksburg, Texas<\/strong> and <strong>north St. Louis County, Missouri<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who Are the Winners?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to state lottery laws, both winners remain <strong>anonymous<\/strong>. In Texas, the ticket was sold at <em>Big\u2019s 103<\/em> gas station, while Missouri\u2019s winner purchased theirs at a QuikTrip gas station. While we may never know their names, we do know this: their lives have changed forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Prize Options<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Each winner has two choices:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Annuity<\/strong>: $893.5 million paid over ~30 years with annual increases.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lump Sum<\/strong>: About <strong>$410.3 million in cash<\/strong> right away, before taxes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Texas Wins Bigger<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Because Texas has <strong>no state income tax<\/strong>, that winner will walk away with more money than the Missouri ticket holder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why This Is Historic<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The jackpot stands as the <strong>second-largest Powerball win ever<\/strong>, behind the $2.04 billion jackpot in 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The odds of winning? A staggering <strong>1 in 292.2 million<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u26a1 <strong>Summary<\/strong>: Two winners\u2014one in Texas and one in Missouri\u2014are splitting the massive $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot. Both remain anonymous, but their tickets have secured them each nearly half a billion dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The record-breaking $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot has finally been claimed\u2014and the winners are officially revealed. Two lucky tickets matched all six numbers in what became the second-largest&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}