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Can You Play Powerball Online?
Yes, you can! Play Powerball online by selecting five main numbers from 1-69 and a single Powerball number from 1-26. When you play online with official lottery tickets, you can choose your Powerball numbers manually, with the Quick Pick option, or use your saved lucky numbers. You’ll receive a scanned copy of your official US Powerball ticket in your private theLotter account before every draw.
US Powerball draws are staged every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at 23:00 EST!
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Can You Buy Powerball Tickets Online Outside the US?
Yes! When you play Powerball online at theLotter, you can purchase Powerball tickets worldwide. theLotter's local offices will buy official US Powerball lottery tickets on your behalf from inside the US, and with theLotter’s lottery courier service, you will see a scan of any and all Powerball tickets you buy in your theLotter account before the relevant draw.
What is the Powerball Power Play Option?
Powerball offers an optional multiplier known as the Power Play, which multiplies the seven bottom prize divisions by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 times, depending on the draw and jackpot size. Matching five main numbers and the Power Play still makes you a multi-millionaire by doubling Powerball’s second place prize to a staggering $2,000,000! To add the multiplier, simply check the Power Play box when you buy your Powerball tickets online. Get more information on how to play with this incredibly rewarding play option by checking out our Power Play guide.
How to Claim US Powerball Lottery Prizes at theLotter
Win with theLotter and receive automated win notifications via email or SMS. Powerball prizes will go straight into your secure online account results are published and soon after the receipt of the prize from the official lottery operator. If you win a larger prize you will be invited to collect your prize in person in the US with a flight paid for by theLotter! All Powerball wins are subject to state and federal taxes. To see the latest winning numbers and learn more about taxes on US Powerball wins, please go to the US Powerball results page.
How Can I Be Sure I'll Receive My Prize?
From purchase to payoff, theLotter is secure and simple. Per our Terms of Use, theLotter has no legal claim to your tickets whatsoever -- all winnings are 100% yours. When you buy Powerball tickets online, a confirmation email is sent to you as proof of ticket ownership. After the ticket is physically purchased, you will also be able to see a scanned copy of the ticket in your account as proof-of-purchase.
How Do You Win the Powerball Jackpot?
US Powerball offers an impressive $20 million* starting jackpot and its $2.04 billion record from November 2022 is the all-time biggest jackpot in the world! When all the numbers on your Powerball ticket match the five main numbers and the Powerball, you win the US Powerball jackpot prize! In addition to the jackpot you can win one of eight exciting secondary prizes including a second prize that starts at $1 million! Even when you buy Powerball tickets online you are eligible to win these amazing prizes - if your numbers match those drawn! Learn more about Powerball and other popular US lotteries by checking out our American lotteries guide.
*Officially, the advertised jackpot is determined by game sales and interest rates, and it is announced prior to each draw.
theLotter's US Powerball Online Lottery Winners
Can a non-US citizen win the lottery? Of course you can! This is confirmed not only on the official Powerball website, but also in the stories of some of our biggest US Powerball online lottery winners here at theLotter.
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Australian G. won an amazing $1 million second prize on Wednesday 19 October 2016. G. is a veteran player who has been playing lotteries with theLotter since 2003, teaching us a little about the virtue of persistence.
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Canadian P. from Quebec won $1 million on Saturday 27 February 2016, marking the second time in two months that a foreigner had won the coveted second prize. Read more about our Canadian Powerball winner's story to find out how he discovered he was a millionaire while he was eating breakfast.
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73-year-old H from El Salvador had one question on his mind when the Powerball jackpot hit $1.5 billion: Where can I buy a Powerball ticket? Luckily the answer was theLotter and he won the $1 million 2nd prize in the historic draw on 13 January 2016! "I won!" he shouted out when he heard the news. He plans to travel and retire in style.
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B.U. from the UK won the Powerball’s second place $1 million prize after playing just five entries in the draw on 21 April 2012! When he got the call from theLotter informing him that he was a big winner, he thought it was a joke. No joke! Read what our millionaire winner said about his big success!
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Fifty five of our players from all over the world teamed up in a Powerball syndicate in November 2017 and shared a $106,000 win, including two 3rd Division prizes of $50,000. What was even more amazing is that every single line of the syndicate’s 65 lines won a prize! Read the story of our winning Powerball syndicate.
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Costa Rican player R.R. woke up to a $50,000 Powerball prize after winning third place in the 1 December 2021 draw! He matched the 4 numbers + the Powerball, meaning he was just a single number away from winning the draw’s jackpot prize. R.R. has been playing America’s biggest lottery draws, Powerball and Mega Millions, almost exclusively since joining theLotter in 2019 - and it's definitely paid off!
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K.V., a property manager from Mexico, thought it was a mistake when he saw an email from theLotter informing him of a $50,000 US Powerball win! On 27 October 2021, he matched the draw’s third-place prize by correctly guessing 4 main numbers + the Powerball. That’s pretty amazing considering the odds of winning this prize are 1 in 1:913,129! While he claims to have no specific strategy for winning, he had been consistently using the same combination of numbers made up of his home address and that of his grandparents.
Big Jackpot News
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After 40 rollovers, a record-shattering $2.04 billion jackpot prize was finally matched on 7 November 2022 by a single ticket sold in the state of California, and the winner was identified as Edwin Castro in February 2023. This prize is now the biggest jackpot in the world and the largest lottery prize ever won by a single ticket. The draw's winning numbers were 10 33 41 47 56 and the Powerball was 10.
Due to the excitement surrounding the draw's unprecedented jackpot prize, a total of 11.2 million tickets won $98.1 million in Powerball prizes, including 22 tickets that won the $1 million second place prize!
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It seems that those who play together, win together! A single Powerball ticket purchased by a married couple from Gilbert, Arizona won the entire $473.1 million jackpot on 27 April 2022! The couple chose to take home a lump sum payment of $283.3 million. This Powerball jackpot is currently the biggest lottery prize ever won in the state of Arizona.
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A great start to 2023! On Monday, 6 February 2023, a single ticket in Washington won a $754.6 million Powerball jackpot ($407.2 million cash) after matching all six numbers drawn - white balls 5, 11, 22, 23, 69 and red Powerball 7.
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