Big lottery wins around the U.S. include a lucky lottery ticketholder in California who won a $1.27 billion Mega Millions jackpot in December 2024. See more big winners here. And if you do end up cashing a jackpot, here’s what experts say to do first.

Here are Wednesday’s winning lottery numbers: The estimated Powerball jackpot is $512 million. The lump sum payment before taxes would be about $239.1 million.

One player went home with $100,000 after consulting a chatbot — could you make similar magic ahead of Friday’s big drawing?

A jackpot-winning lottery ticket worth nearly $800,000 was sold in Allegheny County. The Match 6 Lotto ticket matched all six numbers, 19-25-31-33-37-38, to win the $760,000 jackpot in Monday's drawing. The ticket was sold at the Shop 'N Go Deli on Route 837 in West Elizabeth. The store gets a $5,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.

The winning numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the "Ohio Pick 4 Evening" game were: (five, six, eight, nine)