(Baton Rouge, LA) Thankfully, the folks who work at the Louisiana Lottery Corporation had Sunday night to rest up after a flurry of weekend wins in the Powerball, Mega Millions, and Easy 5 games. After Sunday's break, they were hard at it again in Baton Rouge as the Louisiana Lottery participated in the Monday night drawing for Powerball.
Powerball is a multi-state lottery game. You can play Powerball in 45 U.S. States, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Powerball game made its debut in Louisiana on March 5, 1995. Over the past 30 years, Louisiana has managed to produce 10 jackpot winners in the game.
The most recent Powerball jackpot win in Louisiana came in 2018 when a ticket sold in Lafayette earned a prize of $55.9 million. That big win is credited to the Moose Family Trust. And while Louisiana doesn't specifically publish the names of lottery winners, it is still possible to find out who "suddenly came into a lot of money" via the state's open records laws in regards to "payments issued by state entities".
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If you didn't stay awake for Monday's Powerball drawing, here is how the numbers bounded out of the hopper for November 17, 2025.
As you can see from the video above, at the time of the drawing, the estimated annutized jackpot prize for Powerball was $568.9 million. That jackpot has been building since September 6, 2025. That's when two tickets split a jackpot prize of more than one billion dollars.
Our sources at Powerball did confirm that no tickets sold for last night's game matched the numbers needed to claim the jackpot prize being offered. There was one Match 5 Million winner. That ticket was sold in West Virginia. So, you could say the West Virginia ticket missed $569 million by just one number. I think that might be the only time I would ever be disappointed to win one million dollars.
Based on data provided by the Louisiana Lottery, it looks as if a little more than 4,800 tickets purchased in the state earned money back for their investors. The largest group to win money was the Powerball Only group. 2,116 tickets earned $4 bucks for that match, while another 1,354 tickets earned five times that amount thanks to the Power Play.
Here are the numbers for Powerball on November 17, 2025.
07 33 50 57 66 Powerball 23 Power Play x5
The largest single ticket win that we saw in Louisiana was $500. Only three tickets earned that amount. There were another five tickets that earned a prize of $100 in last night's game as well. All in all, not the most lucrative of lottery nights for Louisiana players.
Tonight's Mega Millions game will start over with a new jackpot following a massive, almost one billion dollar win over the weekend. The jackpot for tonight's Mega Millions lottery drawing will be $50 million.
Powerball will draw again on Wednesday night with an estimated jackpot prize of $593 million. Lotto from the Louisiana Lottery will also draw on Wednesday night; the jackpot in that Louisiana-only game is $3.8 million.