Bits & Odds

New Hampshire Lottery Numbers and Rules (September 2026)

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

Power Play is on sale in New Hampshire; Double Play is not, so a New Hampshire ticket tops out at $3 a line. At the jackpot standing after the September 16, 2026 draw, a $2 Powerball ticket bought in New Hampshire is worth $0.76, 38c on the dollar, and New Hampshire withholds nothing.

Multi-state games in New Hampshire

What is different in New Hampshire

Ticket price
$3 a line, all in
$2 base plus $1 each for Power 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
Not sold here
One of the 18 jurisdictions that do not offer it; the other 30 do.
Prize structure
Fixed, as the chart
The published amounts are what you are paid — New Hampshire does not adjust them for sales.
State withholding
None
No tax on lottery winnings. Federal withholding of 24% applies on top, everywhere.
Minimum age
18
New Hampshire Lottery's own rule. Five jurisdictions set it higher.

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

New Hampshire Lottery's own games

New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire. Rather than republish a feed we have not checked, the page says so. New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire's rules, which is not what they are worth under anyone else's.

New Hampshire lottery tools

New Hampshire lottery questions

What lottery games can you play in New Hampshire?
Mega Millions and Powerball, plus New Hampshire Lottery's own draw games and scratch tickets. We publish the multi-state analysis and the New Hampshire rules; New Hampshire Lottery's own draw games are not in our database yet.
Does New Hampshire sell Power Play and Double Play?
Power Play, yes — $1 a play. Double Play, no: 30 of the 48 lotteries sell it and New Hampshire is not one of them, so a New Hampshire line tops out at $3.
How much tax does New Hampshire withhold from lottery winnings?
Nothing — no tax on lottery winnings. Federal withholding of 24% still applies. The calculator does the rest.
Which New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire numbers come from?
The multi-state games are cross-checked against several official sources before we publish them. Every source is listed here. The New Hampshire rules on this page were read from powerball.com and New Hampshire Lottery on 2026-09-22.

About the New Hampshire Lottery

New Hampshire Lottery sells Powerball and Mega Millions alongside its own games. You must be 18 to buy a ticket, and a winning ticket has to be claimed in the jurisdiction where it was sold. nhlottery.com

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