Listen up, degenerates. The Powerball jackpot is now at $1.25 BILLION, and if you're not dreaming about quitting your job and buying an island, are you even alive?

This is the 6th largest lottery jackpot in history, we're about to break the record for longest Powerball drought, and this is the FIRST TIME EVER there have been back-to-back billion-dollar jackpots in any US lottery.

History is happening, and it only costs $2 to be part of it.

The Quick Hit

• What happened: Nobody won Monday's $1.14 billion jackpot, so it rolled to $1.25 billion
• The damage: 41 drawings without a winner, about to break the drought record
• Why you should care: Back-to-back billion-dollar jackpots is literally unprecedented
• The move: Buy a ticket. Multiple tickets. Live the dream for 48 hours.

The Numbers Are Getting Stupid

Here's where we're at:

• Current jackpot: $1.25 billion (estimated)
• Cash option: $572 million
• Next drawing: Wednesday, December 17, 2025
• Drawings without a winner: 41

If no one hits on Wednesday, we'll break the record for the longest Powerball drought ever. The current streak of 41 drawings is already historic — we're watching lottery history unfold in real time.

Why Is This Happening?

Remember when Mega Millions raised their ticket price from $2 to $5 back in April? Turns out Americans actually give a shit about that extra $3. Mega Millions sales cratered, and all those lottery dollars flowed straight to Powerball.

The result? Powerball jackpots are growing faster and bigger than ever, while Mega Millions is sitting at a comparatively pathetic $90 million. (Still life-changing money, but who are we kidding, we want the BILLION.)

The Back-to-Back Billion Record

This is the first time in US lottery history that we've had consecutive jackpots over $1 billion. The last Powerball jackpot — $1.787 billion split between tickets in Missouri and Texas back in September — was the second-largest Powerball ever.

Now, just a few months later, we're back in billion-dollar territory. The lottery gods are feeling generous (statistically speaking, no they're not, but let us dream).

What Could You Do With $1.25 Billion?

Let's do some degenerate math:

• Buy a professional sports team: Most NFL teams are valued around $3-5 billion, but you could absolutely get an NBA or NHL franchise
• Fund your betting bankroll for life: At even modest returns, $1 billion generates about $40 million per year in interest
• Build your own casino: Durango just spent $385 million on an expansion. You could build THREE Durangos
• Retire everyone you know: Pay off your entire family's mortgages and still have $1.2 billion left

Or, you know, just throw it all on the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl next year. Wait, shit, never mind.

The Odds Are Terrible (But Who Cares)

Let's be real: Your odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. You're more likely to:

• Get struck by lightning (1 in 15,300)
• Become a movie star (1 in 1.5 million)
• Get attacked by a shark (1 in 3.7 million)
• Win an Oscar (1 in 11,500)

But here's the thing: SOMEONE is going to win eventually. Every single Powerball jackpot in history has been won. And that someone could be you, if you buy a ticket.

Where the Money Comes From

When you buy a Powerball ticket, here's where your $2 goes:

• About 50% goes to the prize pool
• 35-40% goes to the state where you bought the ticket
• The rest goes to retailers and administrative costs

So even if you lose (you will), at least you're funding schools or roads or whatever your state pretends to spend lottery money on.

The Bottom Line

Is buying a lottery ticket a mathematically sound investment? Absolutely fucking not.

Is the feeling of holding a ticket while a $1.25 billion jackpot is on the line worth $2? That's between you and your accountant.

But here at The Raging Degenerate, we believe in hope. We believe in dreams. We believe that somewhere out there, some beautiful degen is going to check their numbers and have their entire life change in an instant.

And for $2, we can all be part of that fantasy until Wednesday night.

Buy the ticket. Take the ride. And if you win, remember who believed in you.