The Powerball game
Everything you need to play Powerball: how to pick your 5 white balls and red Powerball, what a play costs, how the jackpot grows, what each of the 9 prize tiers pays, how to fill out a ticket and where you can buy one legally.
How to play Powerball
Pick 5 white balls and 1 red Powerball, choose your drawings and add Power Play if you like. Everything you need for your first $2 play.
The Powerball jackpot: how it grows and how it's paid
It starts at $20 million, rolls over until someone wins and has no cap. How the jackpot is estimated, shared and paid, and why the cash option is smaller.
Powerball prizes: payouts, odds and taxes
From $4 for the Powerball alone to the jackpot: the nine prize tiers, their odds, what Power Play adds, how prizes are taxed and where to claim them.
Powerball rules
Who can play and the minimum age in each state, what's drawn, how prizes are decided, what Power Play does and how long you have to claim.
How to fill out a Powerball ticket
The parts of the play slip, how to mark your numbers or ask for a Quick Pick, what a play costs with add-ons and what to check on your printed ticket.
Where to play Powerball
The full list of participating states, where to buy in person, which lotteries sell online, what couriers are, and how to play as a visitor or from abroad.
How the Powerball game works
Powerball is a 5/69 + 1/26 game: each $2 play is five white balls from 1 to 69 and one red Powerball from 1 to 26. It's drawn every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 PM ET, and for $1 more, Power Play multiplies any prize except the jackpot. Step by step, in how to play Powerball.
There are 9 ways to win, from $4 for the Powerball alone to the jackpot for all six numbers. The jackpot starts at $20 million and rolls over with no cap until someone wins it; the other prizes are set amounts. They're all in Powerball prizes and the Powerball jackpot.
The rest of this section covers the rules, how to fill out a Powerball ticket and where to play. After the drawing, check your numbers in the ticket checker and see the winning numbers and prize breakdown in results.