Powerball players in Missouri and Texas hold two winning tickets for the nearly $1.8 billion jackpot on Sunday, ending the lottery game's three-month drought without a big winner.

Powerball players in Missouri and Texas have won the nearly $1.8 billion jackpot, overcoming astronomical odds to end the lottery game’s three-month drought without a big winner.

Edwin Castro of Altadena, California, is the sole winner of $2.04 billion Powerball drawing in November 2022. He opted for lump sum of $997.6 million.

The massive $1.787 billion Powerball ticket was sold on Sept. 6 at the QuikTrip location at 12110 Lusher Road in north St. Louis County, the Missouri Lottery said in a press release. The ticket matched all six numbers drawn and the winner will now split the jackpot prize with another winning ticket in Texas.

Fifty-three players in New Jersey won $10,000 or more last week playing Powerball and New Jersey Lottery games. There was $6.5 million won.

Just last Wednesday, two people in Georgia won $1 million prizes from the Powerball drawing. One of those tickets was sold at a busy Buckhead gas station.

The prize, which was the second-largest US lottery jackpot in history, followed 41 consecutive drawings in which no one matched all six numbers.

The biggest prize winner was Dean Luck, who claimed his $1 million winnings Sept. 5 at the lottery office in Madison from a Million Dollar Diamonds scratch ticket he purchased from Jerry's Automotive, 700 N. Spring St. in Beaver Dam.