Winning Powerball numbers for Monday, April 21, $139 million jackpot day after Easter holiday
Will a $2 Powerball ticket make you a multimillionaire? As they say in the lottery business, 'it can happen to you.'
After no one matched all five numbers plus the Powerball in the Saturday, April 19, drawing, the jackpot jumped to $139 million for Monday, April 21. If there's a winner, it'd be a $63.8 million one-time lump sum, according to Powerball online. Check back after 11 p.m. for Monday's winning numbers. We'll see if someone's lucky numbers or a random Quick Pick led to a big payoff the day after Easter Sunday. (The Easter holiday was April 20, 2025.)
In case you're wondering, Saturday, April 19, winning Powerball numbers were 7-25-37-39-63 and the Powerball was 1. Power Play was 3x. Though those numbers produced another rollover, it wasn't all bad news: There was on big winner in Saturday night's drawing. A ticket purchased in Nebraska matched 5 for a $1 million prize.
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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!
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Powerball drawings are at 11 p.m. EDT Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, including holidays. Check back for Monday, April 21, winning Powerball numbers. We'll see if there's a winner or another rollover.
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The last Powerball streak ended Saturday, March 29, 2025, when a ticket purchased from a 7-11 convenience store three miles from Disneyland in Anaheim, California, aka the 'happiest place on Earth,' matched all five numbers plus the Powerball to win the $515 million jackpot. Final ticket sales pushed the grand total to $526.5 million, according to the California Lottery.
Below is a recap of Powerball drawings and how long it took to grow from $20 million to the current prize.
Monday, April 21: $139 million
Saturday , April 19: $131 million
Wednesday, April 16: $113 million
Monday, April 14: $100 million
Saturday, April 12: $82 million
Wednesday, April 9: $65 million
Monday, April 7: $54 million
Saturday, April 5: $47 million
Wednesday, April 2: $30 million
Monday, March 31: $20 million
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Powerball drawings are held at 11 p.m. EDT 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 Wednesday, April 23.
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."
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.
Who won, how long did it take to win Powerball, Mega Millions and those billion-dollar jackpots?
Here are the Top 10 Powerball jackpots in the history of the game as of April 21, 2025:
10. $731.1 million — Jan. 20, 2021; Maryland
9. $754.6 million — Feb. 6, 2023; Washington
8. $758.7 million — Aug. 23, 2017; Massachusetts
7. $768.4 million — March 27, 2019; Wisconsin
6. $842.4 million — Jan. 1, 2024; Michigan
5. $1.08 billion — July 19, 2023; California
4. $1.33 billion — April 6, 2024; Oregon
3. $1.586 billion — Jan. 13, 2016; California, Florida and Tennessee
2. $1.765 billion Powerball drawing — Oct. 11, 2023; California
1. $2.04 billion — Nov. 7, 2022; California
As of April 21, 2025, there have been 12 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)
$1.586 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 will be updated with new information.)
This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: Winning Powerball numbers for Monday, April 21, 2025, day after Easter
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