Powerball players win $150,000 in Georgia as jackpot reaches $1.1 billion
Two Powerball tickets sold in Georgia won $150,000 each, just missing the $1.03 billion jackpot, lottery officials say.
The tickets matched four winning numbers, the Powerball and the Power Play in the drawing Saturday, Aug. 30, the Georgia Lottery said. Five other Georgia players won $50,000 each.
The lucky $150,000 tickets were sold at a Chevron service station in Griffin, which is about a 40-mile drive south from Atlanta, and online by a resident of Carrollton, which is about a 50-mile drive southwest from Atlanta.
Tickets sold in Colorado, Indiana and New Hampshire matched five winning numbers and the Power Play multiplier but not the Powerball to win $2 million each, the national Powerball site said.
Tickets sold in Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania matched five winning numbers but not the Powerball to win $1 million each.
Four players in California, which adjusts lottery prizes based on the number of tickets sold and number of winners, won $1.1 million each.
Another 115 players across the U.S. matched four numbers drawn and the Powerball to win $50,000, and 27 added the Power Play multiplier to win $150,000.
The winning numbers were 3, 18, 22, 27 and 33 with a Powerball of 17. The Power Play multiplier was 3x.
Powerball jackpot rises
Nobody won the grand prize, which rises to an estimated $1.1 billion, with a cash value of about $498.4 million, for the next drawing Monday, Sept. 1, the national Powerball site said.
More than 4.7 million other Powerball tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $4 to $150,000, the lottery said.
The Powerball jackpot was last won May 31, when a California player hit the $204.5 million grand prize.
What to know about Powerball
To score a jackpot in the Powerball, a player must match all five white balls and the red Powerball.
The odds of scoring the jackpot prize are 1 in 292,201,338.
Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state.
Drawings are broadcast Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:59 p.m. ET and can be streamed online.
Powerball is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
This story was originally published September 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM.