Winning Powerball numbers for May 21, 2025. Did anyone win Powerball?
The Powerball jackpot was at $147 million with a cash value of $65.9 million for Wednesday night's drawing after no jackpot-winning ticket was sold for Monday's lottery.
Here are the winning numbers for Wednesday, May 21, 2025:
The five white balls were 9, 29, 31, 34 and 43. The Powerball was 2. The Power Play multiplier was 2x.
Tickets matching all five white balls worth $1 million each were sold in Kansas, New Hampshire and Texas.
Technically you can win Powerball with just one number. If you hit on the Powerball number, you get a prize of $4.
If you get one ball correct, you have to also hit the Powerball to win $4. If you hit two balls and the Powerball, you win $7. You also get $7 for getting three numbers right without the Powerball. Add the Powerball onto that and you'd get $100.
You also win $100 for getting four numbers right.
Here's where it gets fun. If you hit four numbers and the Powerball, you win $50,000. Hit all five numbers, and you win $1 million. You when the grand prize if you hit all five numbers and the Powerball.
Powerball drawings take place every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. ET.
Powerball winning ticket: Holder of $252.6 million ticket sold in Summit County claims prize anonymously
Here are the previous all-time top five Powerball jackpot wins, according to powerball.com:
$2.04 billion — Nov. 7, 2022; California.
$1.765 billion — Oct. 11, 2023; California.
$1.586 billion — Jan. 13, 2016; California, Florida, Tennessee.
$1.326 billion - April 6, 2024; Oregon
$1.08 billion — July 19, 2023; California.
This article originally appeared on The Repository: Powerball winning numbers for Wednesday, May 21, 2025
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