Louisiana Lottery Confirms Million Dollar Powerball Win Wednesday

(Baton Rouge, LA) The early morning hours of this Thursday morning have been anything but quiet along I-10 in South Louisiana. Currently, a line of showers and storms is pushing through communities like Lafayette, Broussard, Breaux Bridge, and Arnaudville and is heading eastward toward Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Fortunately, we got the Louisiana Lottery drawings for Powerball, Lotto, and Easy 5  in before the storms got started.

With any luck, and with great forecasting from the National Weather Service, we should be done with the rain across Louisiana's I-10 corridor by Noon. That means that those of you who played Powerball or any other lottery game in Louisiana last night should have no trouble getting to your nearest Louisiana Lottery Prize Redemption Office or lottery retailer to claim your winnings, depending on how large a prize you earned in Wednesday's Powerball game.

Here is how the drawing for April 23, 2025, played out in the Powerball game.

The life-changing jackpot on offer from Powerball was listed at $151.3 million. Our sources at Powerball have confirmed that no tickets sold across the game's footprint matched the numbers needed to claim that prize.  So, the Powerball jackpot will be even higher when they draw again on Saturday night.

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Our sources at the Louisiana Lottery have confirmed that there were 1,887 winning Powerball tickets sold in the state last night, where the ticket purchaser did not opt in for the Power Play. There were another 1,209 winners sold in the state, where players had their winnings doubled because of the Power Play. If you didn't see the numbers in the video, here's what we saw rolling out of the hopper in last night's Powerball drawing.

What Were Wednesday Night's Powerball Numbers?

15   44   63   66   69   Powerball 20   Power Play x2

The Louisiana Lottery says the largest prize earned by a state-sold Powerball ticket was $200. Seven tickets sold for Wednesday's drawing earned that prize. We mentioned there was a million-dollar winner sold for Wednesday's Powerball; that ticket was purchased in Pennsylvania.

Wednesday's Lotto drawing in Louisiana was for a top prize of $575,000. No ticket matched the numbers needed to claim that prize. However, five tickets were sold for Wednesday's Lotto drawing, and the prize was $1,114 for matching five of the six Lotto numbers.

How Much is The Mega Millions Jackpot Now?

The Easy 5 Jackpot was listed at $100,000, and there was no jackpot winner confirmed for that game either. In fact, the largest Easy 5 prize won in Louisiana was $100, but 12 players earned that prize. The Louisiana Lottery will take tonight off and then give you another chance to be an instant millionaire with the Mega Millions game. That drawing will be held on Friday night, the top prize in the newly "enhanced" Mega Millions game is listed at $60 million.

This will be the second drawing for "enhanced" Mega Millions since the game had a jackpot winner this past Friday night.