(Baton Rouge, LA) Our dear friend in charge of ink and check writing at the Louisiana Lottery offices in Baton Rouge will need to stock up on supplies. The Louisiana Lottery and Powerball have confirmed two big wins in the state for Saturday night. There was also a jackpot win in Easy 5 on Saturday.
Saturday's Powerball drawing featured a top prize of $548.7 million for that annuitized jackpot. And while that is an impressive number for any lottery jackpot, most of the recent lottery attention has been on the Mega Millions game.
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Mega Millions, much like Powerball, is played across several state lottery jurisdictions. In April of 2025, Mega Millions changed the format of the game in hopes of creating more big winners and bigger jackpots. The game raised ticket prices to $5 and eliminated the "megaplier" function. Instead, all Mega Millions tickets come with a preselected multiplier that can be applied to all prizes except the jackpot.
The jackpot prize in Mega Millions on Friday night was $980 million, almost one billion dollars. So you can see why a lot of lottery players were a little more interested in Mega Millions. By the way, the Mega Millions jackpot was won by a single ticket sold in Georgia.
Back to Powerball now, here is how Saturday night's drawing played out for November 15, 2025.
Our sources at Powerball confirmed that no ticket sold across the game's footprint matched the numbers needed to claim the jackpot prize. There were four tickets sold that matched all of the white balls, missing only the Powerball. Two of those tickets were sold in California, another in Arizona, and a fourth in Puerto Rico. The ticket sold in Puerto Rico selected the Power Play option, so their prize will be $2 million.
The lottery luck in Louisiana was not quite that lucrative on Saturday night. According to the Louisiana Lottery, there were almost 10,000 winning tickets sold for Saturday's Powerball. Some players only doubled their money by matching the Powerball; those who added Power Play would have gotten $16.
But the big wins in Louisiana on Saturday night were two different tickets that matched four of five white balls and the Powerball. That means the prize those tickets earned would be $50,000. No, they did not have the Power Play function applied to their tickets, but still $50,000 for a $2 investment isn't bad.
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You can verify your ticket and get prize redemption information in the Winner's Portal at the Louisiana Lottery website. But Powerball wasn't the only game to get a big winner on Saturday night in Louisiana.
No, the Lotto game still has not gotten a winner, its jackpot is now over $3.8 million. But there was a jackpot win in Easy 5 last night. The Easy 5 game boasted a jackpot of $200,000, and our sources at the Louisiana Lottery confirmed the winner was purchased in Port Allen.
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So, Easy 5 will return to a starting jackpot of $50,000 for next Wednesday's drawing. Lotto will play for a jackpot of at least $3.8 million also on Wednesday. Powerball will draw for an estimated top prize of $570 million on Monday and Mega Millions will restart a new jackpot on Tuesday with a chance for players to win $50 million.
Please remember that all lottery games involve a risk of losing money. If you choose to play, you could be choosing to lose. If you have a gambling problem, call 1-877-770-STOP (7867). The call is free, and the referral to counseling is offered at no charge as well. Good Luck.
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