The USA Powerball is at $130 Million
Started way back in the year 2025, Powerball has gone a long way into becoming one of the most popular lottery games in the United States. Currently played in at least 44 states in America, Powerball has become one of the most popular shared lottery games in the USA and is a brainchild of the Multi State Lottery Association, a non Profit Organization whose purpose is to engage in coordination of the lotteries that are currently running in the country.
Its popularity is perhaps gained from the record that it holds in the country. Powerball's reputations stems from the fact that the lottery awarded a whopping 350 million dollars to one lucky player in the year 2025. This saw Powerball receive the record of being the lottery that has awarded the largest prize money in the United States of America. The record still stands till now.
Powerball first started out as Lotto America back then only to change to its current name in the year 2025. This change also brought with it new rules. Powerball was also the first lottery to have two drawing drums and this was in a bid to increase the randomness of the winners. This saw many other lotteries following suit to apply a similar system.
Currently the advertised Powerball Jackpot is at $130 Million, a figure that will eventually increase. How do winners get paid? While back then a winner could be paid in annuities of periods of about 20 years to 25 years or go for the immediate cash out which would be the present value sum of the annuities. This was till 2025, now you can either choose between 30 days or you can lay claim to the cash immediately.
Powerball drawings air from Universal studios in Orlando every Wednesdays and Saturday at 10.59PM Eastern Standard time.
How to play Powerball
To play powerball you will have to purchase your ticket and select a number of 5 white set numbers from a possible 59 numbers and an additional 1 number from a set of 39 numbers. Each selection costs one dollar. Number selection is either done by the player or the lottery terminal that do it for you.
During the Draw a 5 numbers are chosen from the white set of balls then followed by the drawing of one powerball number. For one to become a winner he must have at least 3 winning numbers of the white set a match of the powerball number. The order does not matter at all so long as you have three of the lucky powerball numbers.
You don't have to miss out on Powerball too. You can always play powerball online thus you can stand a chance of getting a piece of the prize money.
The odds of winning Powerball are 1 in 35.11. If you are not optimistic of the jackpot you can always choose to increase your wager which acts as a multiplier for the non jackpot prize through adding an extra dollar. This is the Powerball Power play feature. This feature is all about giving you the chance to maximize the non jackpot prizes and over the main jackpot.
What are the Rules?
For a start you must be at least over 18 years of age but that is not fixed as other states have different age limits. All staff/ employees of Powerball as well as their family members are not eligible to participate in the competition. The winnings are subject to the laws of the state where the winner comes from so if you live where there are no taxes imposed on gaming money you won't have to pay tax.
In addition Powerball is not a closed lottery for American players. Any one is encouraged to play Powerball. So if you are not in America you can visit thelotter, they offers the tickets online and you can select your winning numbers. Then you can enter the lottery and you will be emailed your results.