Powerball Confirms Christmas Day Win in Louisiana

Maybe on of the last big Christmas gifts a Louisiana family received this Christmas arrived several hours after Santa had turned his sleigh back northward toward the north pole.  Because on Christmas night while most of us were sleeping off a big Christmas dinner and catching up on our sleep from an early Christmas morning some lucky lottery player in Louisiana got a $50,000 Christmas gift from the Powerball lottery game. 

The Powerball lottery did hold a drawing on Christmas night. And in case you missed it. Here is how the numbers popped out of the hopper for Christmas Day 2023.

The jackpot in last night's drawing was estimated to be just over $666.3 million dollars and the numbers that were drawn for last night's game were:

05   12   20   24   29  Powerball 04   Power Play x 2

You can verify those numbers at the official Powerball website. You'll also see when you visit that site that no tickets sold for the Christmas Night drawing of Powerball matched the numbers needed to claim the game's top prize. That means when Powerball is played again on Wednesday the estimated top prize will be $685 million if you choose the annuity or $344.7 million if you opt for the lump sum payment.

The Texas Lottery is reporting its largest win to be a $100,000 winner and there were also three tickets sold for Powerball in Texas that earned a prize of $50,000. In Texas the lottery does not publish point of purchase details on prizes of less that $1,000,000.

In Louisiana there was a single $50,000 winning ticket sold. That ticket was sold in Duson, Louisiana at the Grab N Geaux on South Fieldspan Road. The ticket purchaser matched four of the five white ball numbers and the Powerball. They did not opt-in on the Power play which would have doubled their winnings in this case.

There were no drawings on Christmas Day for Lotto or Easy 5. Those games will return on Wednesday night. The Mega Millions lottery will hold its drawing tonight. The estimated jackpot in that game is $73 million. The drawing is at 10 p.m. Louisiana time.