Drawings are broadcast live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at p. ET from the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee. Drawings are also live streamed on Powerball. The Powerball jackpot grows until it is won. Players select five numbers from 1 to 69; and one Powerball number from 1 to Double Play is available for purchase in 13 jurisdictions. The first Monday drawing will be held on August 23, at p. Players will continue to choose five numbers from 1 to 69 and one Powerball number from 1 to All 48 U.
Additional lotteries may choose to offer Double Play at a later date. Virgin Islands. If no one picks all six winning numbers, the jackpot rolls over to the next drawing. As jackpot values soar, more and more people buy tickets, so a larger percentage of the possible number combinations are sold. Eventually, it becomes nearly impossible for a drawing to occur without a winner.
The jackpot can, and often does, reach values of hundreds of millions of dollars. But there's more to Powerball than just the jackpot prizes. The value of the prizes depends on how many numbers a player has guessed correctly, and the number of prizes awarded in each drawing is limited only by how many people make correct guesses.
For an additional dollar, you can add the PowerPlay option, which increases the size of your prize if you correctly guess one to five qualifying numbers. If you purchase the PowerPlay option, the value of any prize you win for matching fewer than five balls will be multiplied by a randomly-drawn value between two and five. For the payouts for matching five or six balls, the PowerPlay option works differently. The other multipliers don't come into play.
The PowerPlay doesn't affect the size of the jackpot, which is fixed whether you purchase the PowerPlay option or not. No multipliers apply to jackpot payouts. Powerball is a two-drum lottery game. One drum holds 69 white balls, while the other drum holds 26 red balls.
Only one red ball will be drawn, and that red ball is called the Powerball. When you buy your ticket, you select five numbers, which will be drawn from the first drum with the white balls, and one Powerball number. The winning Powerball number will be drawn from the second drum with the red balls.
You can choose your Powerball numbers or you can use Quick Pick , which draws your numbers for you at random. The order of your first five Powerball numbers doesn't affect your chances of winning. If you pick the numbers 1 3 9 13 17 and the Powerball 6, and the winning numbers come up 17 9 1 3 13 6 , you'll still win the jackpot. However, you must correctly guess the Powerball to win the jackpot.
So in the example above, if the winning numbers come up 17 9 6 3 13 1 , you would not be a jackpot winner. To win a Powerball prize, you only need to pick one single number correctly: the red Powerball. To win the Powerball Jackpot, you need to match all five white balls in any order, as well as the red Powerball. Here are all the Powerball payouts :.
Basic Powerball Payouts:. Payouts for Powerball with PowerPlay:. As of February 25, , the odds were listed as follows:. Powerball Multi-Draw lets you easily play the same numbers on up to 26 consecutive drawings at the same time.
Using Multi-Draw helps ensure you don't miss a drawing. You can also choose the Future Drawing option on your Powerball ticket to play on specific dates. So if you feel like an upcoming date will be particularly lucky for you maybe a birthday, anniversary, or a date containing a lucky number , you can be sure you won't forget to play on that day.
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