Powerball Lottery Tickets

Powerball is a lottery game that is played in multiple states in America, and for that reason it is referred to by many people as a “multi-state” lottery game. The base jackpot is worth $40 million, but if nobody wins it then the Powerball jackpot rolls over to make the top prize even bigger for the next Powerball draw. This has helped the Powerball game to create some truly massive winners, as we will talk about a little later. In the meantime, we should tell you that there are two Powerball draws every week, and these are held on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

To play the Powerball game, players have to choose 5 numbers from a main range of 1 to 59 and 1 Powerball number from the range 1 to 35. If you match all six of these numbers you will win a jackpot or, if several people do the same, an equal share of the jackpot. Powerball jackpots can be paid to winners in 30 annual instalments, or in a single cash lump sum. The lump sum option results in a smaller total payout than instalments (the published jackpot figure related to instalments), but of course in some cases a lump sum can be the more sensible option.

The odds of winning any prize from a basic Powerball entry are around 1 in 31.84, but if you want to multiply the size of any non-jackpot prize you can do so by exercising a Power Play option for a small additional cost. This feature multiplies a non-jackpot win if you match the Power Play number that is randomly drawn before each game. Players should note that if a second-tier prize is won (by matching five main numbers) then the prize is automatically doubled. This turns a standard $1 million prize into $2,000,000.

The biggest Powerball jackpot is worth $590.5 million won in May 2013 by a winning ticket from Florida. Buy Powerball tickets online today and the next Powerball winner could be you!

There are nine prize levels in the Powerball game, and the table below shows the numbers that need to be matched in each case, as well as the odds of doing so: