A Powerball player there holds the winning ticket from Wednesday night's drawing for the game's $1.817 billion jackpot. The winner, who so far hasn't gone public, can choose between an annuitized prize of $1.817 billion or a lump sump payment of $834.9 million (both prize options are before taxes).

Check your tickets: It may not have been the billion-dollar Powerball jackpot, but someone in Illinois is waking up $1 million richer after matching five numbers in Monday's drawing. The prize is among nine $1 million winners, with million-dollar tickets also sold in New York, Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.

The second-highest Powerball jackpot has a winner! But South Carolinians should check their numbers to see if they won a $500,000 prize.

Powerball announced the winning numbers for a massive $1.817 billion jackpot on Christmas Eve — and there’s a winner!