United States (multi-state) · Powerball

Powerball ball machine

Watch a draw happen: the balls come out one at a time, from the same crypto-secure draw as every other mode.

Format

5 numbers from 69, plus 1 from a separate pool of 26

Top-prize odds, any line

1 in 292,201,338

Identical for every line on this page

Any-prize odds

1 in 24.87

Press draw. 5 balls will come out one at a time.

This is a real draw, not a cartoon. Each ball comes from the browser's Web Crypto generator with rejection sampling, the same engine behind every other mode here — a genuine uniform draw without replacement. The suspense is theatre; the mathematics is not. To watch a thousand of these against your own line, use the draw simulator.

These numbers are not luckier. Every line in this game has identical odds 1 in 292,201,338 for the top prize, however it was chosen (see the derivation). What a generator changes is which other players hold your line, never your chance of winning. How this generator works.

The draw, one ball at a time

Powerball draws 5 balls per draw. This simulation deals them in sequence from the same crypto-secure engine as the quick pick, so what you are watching is a genuine uniform draw rather than an animation with a predetermined result.

Watching draws is also the fastest cure for the gambler's fallacy: numbers repeat, near-misses are common, and long runs of nothing are normal. The draw simulator runs thousands of them against a fixed line and totals the result.

Other ways to pick

Same odds, different method — and each one says plainly what it does and does not change.

Check the numbers yourself

Play with money you can afford to lose. Every game on this site has a negative expected value at ordinary jackpots — that is how lotteries fund their good causes. If it stops being entertainment, help by country is listed here.

Sources

The game's rules — the format every mode on this page draws to.

Last verified: 2026-08-29