Powerball drawing: Wins, draws, prize, games, lottery
Powerball is America’s Game! Since 1992, Powerball® has inspired the country with a chance to become a millionaire, all while raising $29 billion for public programs and services supported by U.S. lotteries.
Powerball holds the world record for the largest national lottery jackpot at $2.04 billion. The record prize was won by a single ticket in California on Nov. 7, 2022.
Powerball tickets are $2 per play. Tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. More than half of all proceeds from the sale of a Powerball ticket remain in the jurisdiction where the ticket was sold.
Drawings are broadcast live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 pm ET from the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee. Drawings are also live-streamed on Powerball.com, click HERE.
Players select five numbers between 1 and 69 and one Powerball number between 1 and 26.
The Powerball jackpot grows until it’s won. Players win a prize by matching one of the 9 ways to win. The jackpot is won by matching all five white balls in any order and the red Powerball.
Powerball jackpot winners may choose to receive their prize as an annuity, paid in 30 graduated payments over 29 years, or a lump-sum payment. Both advertised prize options are prior to federal and jurisdictional taxes.
The overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24.9. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
Powerball has two add-on features: Power Play® and Double Play®. Players can multiply non-jackpot prizes by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 times with the Power Play® option for an additional $1 per play. The Match 5 + Power Play prize is always $2 million. The 10X multiplier is only in play when the advertised jackpot is $150 million or less.
Players can play their Powerball numbers again in the Double Play® drawing for an additional $1 per play. Double Play has a top cash prize of $10 million and eight lower-tier prizes. The Double Play drawing is held after every Powerball drawing on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Double Play is available for purchase in sixteen jurisdictions.
2023 Winners
| Winner | Date | Option | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | April 19, 2023 | $252,600,000 annuity $134,669,327.27 cash |
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| Virginia | March 4, 2023 | $162,600,000 annuity $82,652,621.31 cash |
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| Becky Bell Washington |
Feb. 6, 2023 | Cash | $754,600,000 annuity $407,204,980.43 cash |
2022 Winners
| Winner | Date | Option | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymous Kansas |
Nov. 19, 2022 | Cash | $92,900,000 annuity $47,309,601.39 cash |
| Edwin Castro California |
Nov. 7, 2022 | Cash | $2,040,100,000 annuity $997,617,687.27 cash |
| Taylor O. Pennsylvania |
Aug. 3, 2022 | Cash | $206,900,000 annuity $122,361,080.04 cash |
| Anonymous Vermont |
June 29, 2022 | Cash | $366,700,000 annuity $208,452,071.69 cash |
| Anonymous Arizona |
April 27, 2022 | Cash | $473,100,000 annuity $283,269,626.72 cash |
| R.K. Connecticut |
Feb. 14, 2022 | Cash | $185,300,000 annuity $123,943,514.25 cash |
| Orlando Zavala Lozano California |
Jan. 5, 2022 | Cash | $632,600,000 annuity (split) $450,220,560.99 cash (split) |
| Tammy and Cliff Webster Wisconsin |
Jan. 5, 2022 | Cash | $632,600,000 annuity (split) $450,220,560.99 cash (split) |
Powerball history
Powerball® celebrated its 30th Anniversary in April 2022.
The first Powerball drawing held on April 22, 1992, had 15 participating lotteries: Delaware, District of Columbia, Iowa, Idaho, Hoosier (Indiana), Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Wisconsin and West Virginia.
Today, there are 48 U.S. lotteries selling the Powerball game.
The Powerball game has been redesigned several times over the past three decades, with changes aimed at delivering bigger jackpots and more overall winners. Powerball debuted its current game matrix (5/69 + 1/26) and odds on Oct. 7, 2015. In addition to the new matrix, the Match 4+PB prize increased from $10,000 to $50,000, and the Power Play® feature was enhanced with a 10X multiplier.
On August 23, 2021, Powerball launched a Monday drawing, which expanded the weekly lineup of Powerball drawings to three nights a week: Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. A new add-on feature called Double Play® was also launched that gives players in select jurisdictions another chance to match their Powerball numbers in a separate drawing with a top cash prize of $10 million.
Powerball became the first multi-jurisdictional draw game to reach a $1 billion jackpot when three tickets split a $1.586 billion jackpot in the Jan. 13, 2016 drawing. The game currently holds the world record for the largest national lottery jackpot at $2.04 billion, which was won by a single ticket in California in the Nov. 7, 2022 drawing.
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