{"id":231174,"date":"2025-08-31T09:40:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=231174"},"modified":"2025-08-31T09:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:43:13","slug":"two-georgians-win-150k-as-powerball-jackpot-climbs-to-1-1b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=231174","title":{"rendered":"Two Georgians Win $150K as Powerball Jackpot Climbs to $1.1 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two players in Georgia struck it big Saturday night, each pulling in $150,000 from the Powerball drawing. The massive jackpot, however, continues to grow and now stands at $1.1 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s Happening:<\/strong> The winning numbers from the August 30 drawing were 3, 18, 22, 27, 33, with a red Powerball of 17. According to the Georgia Lottery, the two $150,000 winners matched four white balls and the Powerball, but their use of the 3x multiplier boosted the standard $50,000 prize threefold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other winners included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Five Georgia players who matched four white balls and the Powerball without the multiplier, taking home $50,000 each.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>67 players who won $300 thanks to the multiplier.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More than 350 players who won $100.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Catch Up Quick:<\/strong> Powerball drawings are held three times a week. No one hit the jackpot on Saturday, so the next drawing is set for Monday night just before midnight Eastern time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>National Picture:<\/strong> Across the country, several players earned million-dollar prizes. Winners were reported in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Indiana, and New Hampshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two players in Georgia struck it big Saturday night, each pulling in $150,000 from the Powerball drawing. The massive jackpot, however, continues to grow and now stands at $1.1 billion. What\u2019s Happening: The winning numbers from the August 30 drawing were 3, 18, 22, 27, 33, with a red Powerball of 17. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9743,12532],"class_list":["post-231174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-lottery","tag-powerball","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}