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Powerball lottery players in Georgia dream big as jackpot reaches $1.6 Billion

(21 Dec 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Atlanta - 21 December 2025 1. Various of Joy Jackson, lottery player, buying Powerball ticket 2. Mid of gas station store 3. SOUDNBITE (English) Joy Jackson, lottery player: "It's not modest but I expect it, I receive it I expect it. I know that if there's anybody he can bless or he knows is going to be a blessing to other people, it's going to be me. He can trust me." 4. Close of Powerball ticket 5. SOUDNBITE (English) Joy Jackson, lottery player: "We're in America, we're in the greatest country in the world. There's absolutely no reason for this much poverty and this much homelessness and, like, people, like, having food deficiencies. There's no reason for it. We all can be a contributing factor. Who needs one billion dollars?" 6. Various of Powerball lottery tickets 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Bob Wehner, lottery player: "My wife encourages me to buy a ticket because she wants to go on a big trip and she wants do something good in society and she thought, well we can do both if we win for crying out loud. In fact, what would we do with all that money anyway? You've got to give some of it away." 8. Wide of car wash 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rowan Macintosh, manager of Two Minit Car Wash: "Even around the holidays I'm super, like, kind of stingy with my money, just because I'm super careful about trying to make sure I have as much money as possible for emergencies and stuff. So yeah, I would be so less stressed if I had a billion dollars." 10. Mid of sign showing the Powerball jackpot 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ronan Farrell, Middle Schooler from Atlanta: "I would probably buy an Xbox, with an Xbox controller as well, a Lambo." 12. Various of gas station manager, Saqi Anwer, working 13. Close of person filling in lottery ticket 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Saqi Anwer, gas station manager: "Yesterday, I had around like $800 worth of tickets we sold it, yesterday, just yesterday alone. So yeah, a lot of people come and say, everybody wants to be a millionaire. So they come in and buy it." 15. Mid of car driving away STORYLINE: As the Powerball jackpot reached $1.6 billion, making it one of the largest lottery prizes in U.S. history, lottery players tried their luck at gas stations across Georgia. Joy Jackson, who usually never buys lottery tickets, said she believes she will be the winner. "It's not modest but I expect it," Jackson said. Others speculate about how they would feel if they won such a large sum. "Even around the holidays, I'm super kind of stingy with my money, just because I'm super careful about trying to make sure I have as much money as possible for emergencies and stuff. So yeah, I would be so less stressed if I had a billion dollars," Rowan Macintosh, manager of Two Minit Car Wash, said. No ticket matched all six winning numbers on Saturday — white balls 4, 5, 28, 52, 69 and red Powerball 20. That sets up the fifth-largest U.S. jackpot ever for Monday's drawing, according to a news release from Powerball. The biggest U.S. jackpot was $2.04 billion in 2022. The winner bought the ticket in California and opted for a lump-sum payment of $997.6 million. The odds of winning Monday's jackpot, which is the fourth-largest in Powerball history, are 1 in 292.2 million, according to Powerball. The winner can opt for a lump-sum payment estimated at $735.3 million or an annuitized prize estimated at $1.6 billion. Both prize options are before taxes. The annuity option offers one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5% each year, Powerball said. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...