Will a $2 lottery ticket make you a multimillionaire? Nov. 8, 2025, Powerball was at $467 million as Mega Millions creeps toward billion-dollar prize.

Edwin Castro of Altadena, California, who won $2.04 billion Powerball lottery Nov. 7, 2022, opted for the lump sum, which was just shy of $1 billion.

In November 2022, Edwin Castro of Altadena, California, became the largest lottery winner in US history for his record $2.04 billion Powerball win.

A Powerball ticket sold in Texas won $100,000, just missing the $194 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The ticket matched four winning numbers, the Powerball and the Power Play multiplier in the drawing Saturday, Oct. 4, the Texas Lottery said.

More than 460,000 Powerball tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $4 to $100,000, the lottery said.

The top 10 all won more than $70 million. The largest lottery prize ever in Texas was more than $410 million, paid out to a lottery trust in Fredericksburg on Oct. 10, 2025. In second place, a ticket worth $409 million was claimed by a lottery trust in Sugar Land in October 2024.