While the prizes are huge, the odds of winning still remain extremely low. Over the last three decades, both games have been redesigned multiple times. Changes have pushed jackpots higher while also adding more ways for players to win smaller prizes.

The Powerball jackpot rose to $880 million after Saturday's drawing. Check here for the winning numbers for Dec. 8, 2025.

Lottery players across the region are already imagining how they’d spend the winnings, from travel and charity to family security.

Some lottery winners get ruined by the luck of instant ultra-wealth. But 15 years after winning big with the Mega Millions, Gil and Jacki Cisneros have stayed grounded — and focused on students in nee

A Hudson County lottery player said winning the Mega Millions jackpot "will allow my family to be financially free."

Monday night’s Powerball jackpot is the seventh largest in the game’s history and one of the largest of 2025. The estimated grand prize for the Dec. 8 drawing is worth $875 million with a cash option of $403.6 million. MLive will provide results of the drawing shortly after it takes place at 11 p.m. EST.

No one won the estimated $820 million Powerball Jackpot in Saturday's draw. However, there was a ticket worth $1 million sold in Florida, according to the Florida Lottery website.

December 8 Monday night drawing will be the game's 7th largest prize