(CNN) — It’s a very happy holiday for a lucky lottery player in Arkansas, who nabbed a $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot on Christmas Eve.

Last minute ticket sales in Wednesday’s drawing pushed the jackpot to $1.817 billion – with a cash option of $834.9 million – making it the second-largest US lottery jackpot ever, Powerball said in a statement.

The winning numbers were 4, 25, 31, 52 and 59, with red Powerball 19, and a Power Play multiplier of 2. It was the 47th drawing in this run, a record for the most in a jackpot cycle, and the largest Powerball prize of the year, the lotto said.

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