United States (multi-state) · Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL)
America's flagship multi-state jackpot game: five numbers from 69 plus a Powerball from a separate pool of 26, drawn Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. The jackpot starts at $20 million and rolls until won; non-jackpot prizes are fixed cash amounts (California pays pari-mutuel equivalents).
Top-prize odds
1 in 292,201,338
Derived from the rules
Any-prize odds
1 in 24.87
Ticket price
$2.00
Power Play +$1 and Double Play +$1 are optional add-ons
Draw days
Monday, Wednesday, Saturday
Cost per unit of jackpot chance
584,402,676 USD
Price × odds — the cleanest value metric
Prize divisions
9
Seven methods, one engine, and each says plainly what it does and does not change.
Quick pick
Crypto-secure random lines with optional locks, exclusions and a balanced-shape filter — and each line's own statistics beside it.
Hot, cold & overdue
Lines built from the real draw history: most-drawn, least-drawn, longest-gap or frequency-weighted — with the counts that produced them.
AI pick
Ask the site's AI for a line and its reasoning — then read why the reasoning cannot beat a coin flip.
Ball machine
Watch a draw happen: the balls come out one at a time, from the same crypto-secure draw as every other mode.
Lucky charm
A name, a date, a pet, a phrase — hashed into a line that is yours and always the same. Deterministic, not destiny.
Unpopular numbers
Lines re-drawn until they avoid birthdays, sequences and lucky-number clusters — identical odds, fewer people to share with.
Low-overlap set
A multi-line set where no two lines share more numbers than they must, and every number gets a turn.
US prizes over $5,000: 24% federal withholding, plus state income tax in most states.
Cheng 'Charlie' Saephan
Laiza Chao joked to the Saephans before the draw that they were already "billionaires"; her $100 stake in a 20-ticket batch made it true.
Theodorus Struyck
He bought the second-largest winning ticket in Powerball history about 500 yards from his own front door, at a cabin he had paid $90,000 for in 2010.
Edwin Castro
The draw ran a day late: Minnesota's sales-verification system held up all 48 lotteries, so the $2.04bn numbers were drawn at 8:57 a.m. ET on 8 November 2022.
Manuel Franco
He told reporters he had under $1,000 in his bank account when he spent $10 on the quick picks that won $768.4 million.
Last verified: 2026-08-29