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Delaware Lottery Numbers and Rules (September 2026)

Tonight's numbers, what a ticket costs in Delaware, which add-ons Delaware Lottery actually sells, and what all of that is worth — with the arithmetic shown.

At the jackpot standing after the September 16, 2026 draw, a $2 Powerball ticket bought in Delaware is worth $0.76, 38c on the dollar, and Delaware withholds nothing.

Multi-state games in Delaware

What is different in Delaware

Ticket price
$4 a line, all in
$2 base plus $1 each for Power Play and Double Play.
Power Play
On sale — $1
Multiplies every prize below the jackpot by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10. We make the extra dollar worth about 46c.
Double Play
On sale — $1
A second drawing of the same numbers, every prize fixed, top prize $10 million. Worth about 53c per dollar — the best-value dollar on the ticket.
Prize structure
Fixed, as the chart
The published amounts are what you are paid — Delaware does not adjust them for sales.
State withholding
None
Exempts lottery prizes from withholding. Federal withholding of 24% applies on top, everywhere.
Minimum age
18
Delaware Lottery's own rule. Five jurisdictions set it higher.

Rules read from powerball.com and Delaware Lottery on 2026-09-22. Withholding rates and the calculator.

Delaware Lottery's own games

Delaware Lottery runs draw games of its own, and their results are not in our database yet — we publish a game only once two independent official sources agree on every draw in its history, and we have not built that for Delaware. Rather than republish a feed we have not checked, the page says so. Delaware Lottery publishes its own results here.

What is on this page instead is the part nobody else computes: what the multi-state games are worth under Delaware's rules, which is not what they are worth under anyone else's.

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Delaware lottery questions

What lottery games can you play in Delaware?
Mega Millions and Powerball, plus Delaware Lottery's own draw games and scratch tickets. We publish the multi-state analysis and the Delaware rules; Delaware Lottery's own draw games are not in our database yet.
Does Delaware sell Power Play and Double Play?
Both. Each costs $1 a play on top of the $2 ticket, so a full Delaware line is $4. We price Power Play at about 46 cents per dollar and Double Play at about 53 cents.
How much tax does Delaware withhold from lottery winnings?
Nothing — exempts lottery prizes from withholding. Federal withholding of 24% still applies. The calculator does the rest.
Which Delaware lottery game has the best odds?
Mega Millions, at 1 in 23.07 of winning something — though the prizes are correspondingly smaller, and winning often is not the same as winning much.
Where do these Delaware numbers come from?
The multi-state games are cross-checked against several official sources before we publish them. Every source is listed here. The Delaware rules on this page were read from powerball.com and Delaware Lottery on 2026-09-22.

About the Delaware Lottery

Delaware Lottery sells Powerball and Mega Millions alongside its own games. 18 for lottery tickets; video lottery is 21. You must be 18 to buy a ticket, and a winning ticket has to be claimed in the jurisdiction where it was sold. delottery.com

Every jurisdiction is listed on the lottery hub — including Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah, which run no lottery at all.