Powerball winning numbers for Sat., Oct. 18, 2025
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Nearly 640,000 other players in the U.S. won prizes ranging from $4 to $150,000, results show. To score a jackpot in the Powerball, a player must match all five white balls and the red Powerball. The odds of scoring the jackpot prize are 1 in 292,201,338.
I asked ChatGPT for a set of Powerball numbers and those are the numbers I played on my ticket. ... My husband and I were in total disbelief," she said.
In November 2022, Edwin Castro of Altadena, California, became the largest lottery winner in US history for his record $2.04 billion Powerball win.
A Michigan woman won big in her local Powerball drawing after asking AI to pick her numbers. Tammy Carvey, 45, won $100,000 in September’s $1.787 billion Powerball jackpot after having ChatGPT randomly generate a set of lottery numbers for her.
Two Tennessee Lottery players each win $50,000 with Powerball tickets purchased in Knoxville and Chattanooga.