Powerball^®

Powerball with Power Play^® is an exciting, multi-state jackpot game for players who enjoy lots of payout levels with the potential to win millions! Powerball gives you nine ways to win. The jackpot starts at $20 million and keeps growing until somebody wins. It’s just $1 per play for a chance to win millions. Jackpot winners can be paid in 30 annual payments over 29 years or in one lump-sum cash payment. If players choose the annuity, the annual payments will be increased each year by a percentage set out in the Powerball game procedures. The annuity payment is approximately twice the estimated cash jackpot amount. Jackpot winners have 60 days after they claim their prize to determine how they want to be paid. Overall odds of winning a Powerball prize are approximately 1 in 35.1. Odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are approximately 1 in 195.2 million.

Powerball drawings are held at 9:59 p.m. every Wednesday and Saturday evening. Powerball drawings are shown on KSTC.TV Channel 45 in the Twin Cities, WDIO-TV Channel 10 in Duluth, WIRT-13 in Hibbing, KEYC-TV Channel 12 in Mankato and KTTC-TV Channel 10 in Rochester. Players have one year from the date of the drawing to claim their prize. Tickets must be purchased before 9 p.m. to be eligible for that day’s drawing at 9:59 p.m. Order carefully – Powerball tickets CANNOT be canceled once they are printed.

How to Play

Just pick five numbers from 1 to 59 (white balls). Then pick one more number from 1 to 39 (the red Powerball). Players can purchase up to 14 draws in advance. Remember, each play costs $1.

Powerball Gets Revved Up with Power Play®

At the time of purchase, for an extra $1 per Powerball play, players can add the Power Play option for the chance to multiply their prizes (except the jackpot) by two, three, four, or five times. Players can win up to $1 million by adding Power Play to their Powerball ticket.

Power Play must be added at the time of Powerball ticket purchase.

The Power Play multiplier number is selected before the Powerball numbers are drawn on each Powerball drawing night. A spin wheel with 16 slots numbered 2 through 5 (four slots for each number on the wheel) is used to select the Power Play multiplier number. Match 5 winners who added Power Play for that drawing will automatically win 5 times the regular prize amount - $1 million - no matter what Power Play number was drawn. In some cases, this prize may be paid on a pari-mutuel basis and will be lower. All other players who have purchased winning Power Play tickets will see their prizes (except the jackpot) multiply by the Power Play number that was drawn.

The table below outlines the prize payments for each Power Play multiplier, which is 2 to 5 times the base prize (but does not apply to the jackpot).

Power Play is purely optional. The prizes for those winning Powerball tickets that did not include the Power Play option remain the same as always. Powerball tickets cannot be canceled.

Prizes and Odds of Winning

Where to Play

The following 44 lotteries offer Powerball: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin and U.S. Virgin Islands.

Match 5 Bonus

Whenever the Powerball jackpot reaches a record level, the amount of the jackpot prize will be limited, by rule, to increases for each drawing of no more than $25 million. The prize money collected in excess of the advertised jackpot amount, if any, will be placed into a bonus prize pool and will accumulate until there is a jackpot winner. When there is a jackpot winner, the bonus prize pool will be divided equally among all winners of the $200,000 prize. The bonus will be made to winners as one lump-sum cash payment. 

The approximate overall odds of winning a Powerball prize are 1 in 35.1.

The Power Play option multiplies your non-jackpot prize by up to 5 times the prize amount.

Tickets must be purchased before 9 p.m. to be eligible for that day's drawing at 9:59 p.m.

* The set prize amounts listed above are based on the expected number of winners sharing in the prize pool. In some cases, these prizes may be paid on a pari-mutuel basis and will be lower than these listed prize levels. Refer to the official game procedures for a detailed explanation of the optional pari-mutuel payment. The jackpot prize will be divided equally among all players who correctly match all 5 white balls plus the red powerball. Jackpot winners have 60 days after claiming that prize to choose how to be paid -- in 30 annual payments or in one lump sum payment (approx. 1/2 the annuitized amount).

**Match 5 Bonus Prize

Whenever the Powerball jackpot reaches a record level, the amount of the jackpot prize is limited to increases for each draw of no more than $25 million. The prize money collected in excess of the maximum $25 million increase, will be placed into the Match 5 Bonus prize pool and will accumulate until there is a jackpot winner. When there is a jackpot winner, the Match 5 Bonus prize pool will be divided equally among all winners of the Match 5 prize. The prize will be paid in one cash lump sum.

The Match 5 Bonus prize is in addition to any Power Play prizes that may be won. The Match 5 Bonus prize is not multiplied. A Match 5 winner who also played the Power Play option will win the original $200,000, the amount paid under the Power Play multiplier option, and the new Match 5 Bonus effective bonus prize. Consider the following scenario: A player matches the five white numbers, another player hits the jackpot by matching all five white numbers plus the red Powerball, MUSL draws the Power Play number "4", and there is $385,000 available for each Match 5 winner as an additional Match 5 Bonus prize for the drawing. This player would then win $200,000 (the original Match 5 prize) + $600,000 (the extra monies created from the Power Play) + $385,000 (the actual Match 5 Bonus) for a total of $1,185,000. Put another way, the player has his $200,000 prize multiplied by 4, and then he also receives the additional $385,000 Match 5 Bonus prize.

Although it is unlikely, it is possible that no Match 5 winner will exist for a drawing when the jackpot is won and a Match 5 Bonus Prize pools exists. In this case, the Match 5 Bonus prize pool will be paid out to the Match 4+1 winners.