Bits & Odds

Lottery Results and Winning Numbers by State (October 2026)

Tonight's winning numbers, and the part nobody else publishes: what the same national game actually costs and pays in each of the 46 US lotteries, with the arithmetic shown.

Tonight's multi-state draws

In an office pool? A printable pool agreement, a ticket log and a split calculator show what each member keeps after tax.

More multi-state games

Drawn once for every lottery that sells them, each with one page: the latest numbers, when it is drawn, the prize chart with the odds of every tier, and the states that sell it.

Pick your state

37 of them have their own draw games in our database; the rest get the multi-state analysis and their own rules. Every card links to that state's ticket price, add-ons, withholding and what a ticket is worth there.

No lottery at all in Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada or Utah — those five sell no tickets of any kind, and a ticket bought across the border has to be claimed across the border.

What a lottery ticket is actually worth

Every site prints the jackpot. Nobody prints this: what one $2 Powerball ticket has been worth at each draw, after the cash-value discount and the odds of splitting the prize with everyone the big jackpot pulled in. It climbs as the jackpot rolls and collapses the moment somebody wins — and at no draw in this run did it reach the line where you get your money back.

0c 25c 50c 75c $1 Break even — you get back what you paid 2 draws withheld $1B jackpot → 71c JanMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

what comes back what does not jackpot won, value resets Hover or tap the chart for any draw

What one $2 Powerball ticket was worth at each of the last 120 draws, before tax. It climbs while the jackpot rolls and drops back the moment somebody wins — 5 times since January 17, 2026. The best draw in that stretch still paid back 71 cents on the dollar. At the top of that range the answer leans on an estimate: once a jackpot is big enough that a win is likely to be shared, how many tickets were sold matters as much as the jackpot, and sales figures are not published per draw. How much that moves the number. 2 draws are missing from the line: the advertised jackpot the feed gives for them could not have followed the draw before, so we leave a gap rather than guess. How we check the feeds.

The Powerball page has the full run, and every state page re-runs the same arithmetic with that state's withholding on the jackpot.

The $1 add-ons, priced

Power Play and Double Play are advertised everywhere and priced nowhere. They are priceable exactly — the ball pool is published, the prize multiples are published, and neither depends on an estimate. Here is what each dollar returns, against what the base ticket's own prize table returns per dollar.

Where the dollar goesOn sale inReturns per $1The catch
The base ticket, below the jackpot All 48 16c Its real value is the jackpot, which is where the split penalty eats it.
Power Play (+$1) 47 of 48 — not California 46c–50c Never multiplies the jackpot, and Match 5 is capped at $2m however the ball lands.
Double Play (+$1) 30 of 48 53c A separate drawing, so a Double Play win needs its own match. No jackpot in it at all.

The add-ons return about three times what the base ticket's prize table does. Every row is still a loss and none of this makes a lottery ticket a good bet. But "skip the add-ons, buy another line" — the standard advice — is the opposite of what the arithmetic says, and it is the opposite because the base ticket's missing value is locked in a jackpot you almost certainly will not win and may have to share.

Where the rules differ

Four differences account for almost all of it, and each one is checked against the operator's own publication on every pipeline run.

Pari-mutuel prizes
1 state
California alone splits each tier among its own winners instead of paying the published amount. What that means for a ticket.
No Power Play
1 state
California again, and for the same reason: a multiplier cannot be promised against a prize pool that is a fixed share of sales.
No Double Play
18 of 48
Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts and 12 more cannot buy it at any price.
State withholding
0–10.9%
9 of them withhold nothing; New York withholds the most. On a nine-figure jackpot that gap is the price of a house. Calculator.

States whose own games we hold

Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin publish results feeds we read every day, so their own draw games get the full treatment — every draw on record, era-correct frequency tables and the combination checker.

Arizona

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California

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Colorado

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District of Columbia

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Florida

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Georgia

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Idaho

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Indiana

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Iowa

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Kansas

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Kentucky

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Louisiana

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Maine

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Mississippi

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New Jersey

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New York

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Oklahoma

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Oregon

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Pennsylvania

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Rhode Island

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Texas

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Vermont

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Washington

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Frequently asked questions

Are the Powerball rules the same in every state?
No, and this is the thing every results site gets wrong by omission. The drawing is one drawing for all 48 jurisdictions, but California pays every prize tier pari-mutuel instead of the published fixed amounts and sells no Power Play at all; Double Play is on sale in only 30 of the 48; and state withholding runs from nothing to 10.9%. So the same $2 ticket costs between $2 and $4 a line and pays differently depending on which side of a state line you bought it.
Is Power Play worth the extra dollar?
It returns about 46 cents on the dollar at a large jackpot and 50 cents when the 10× ball is in the drum — which is only when the advertised jackpot is $150 million or less. That is a loss, like everything else here, but it is roughly three times what the base ticket's own prize table returns per dollar (16 cents). The common advice that you should skip the add-ons and buy another line has the arithmetic backwards.
Which states have no lottery?
Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah. Players in those states cross a border to buy, and a winning ticket must be claimed in the jurisdiction where it was sold — not where the winner lives.
Do hot and cold numbers actually work?
No. We publish the frequency tables because people want them, and we publish the number they should be compared against next to them: how often each ball would come up on average, and how big a lead the front-runner ends up with by chance alone. On every game we hold, the spread sits inside what chance produces. The Powerball table shows the working.
Where do these numbers come from?
A state's own games come from that lottery's own published results, the only official source there is for them. Mega Millions and Powerball are published by several lotteries, so each of their draws is checked against every official source we read before it goes up — and that catches real errors: New York's public feed is missing six Powerball draws, including the record $2.04 billion one, and has two Mega Millions draws wrong. Every source and every correction is listed.

Scratchers

We also rank every scratcher on sale in 26 states by what it currently pays back, state by state, because a ticket is only worth comparing with the others sold where you buy. A scratcher's prize table usually returns more per dollar than a draw ticket's 16 cents. Pick your state.

State rules read from powerball.com, megamillions.com and each lottery's own site on September 22, 2026; bao draws jurisdictions re-reads the published lists on every run and fails the build rather than let this page go quietly stale. How every figure here is computed.