New Mexico Lottery Numbers and Rules (September 2026)
Tonight's numbers, what a ticket costs in New Mexico, which add-ons New Mexico 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 New Mexico is worth $0.73, 37c on the dollar after New Mexico's 5.9% withholding.
Multi-state games in New Mexico
-
Tuesday · Friday · $5 a play
Last drawn September 18, 2026
- Jackpot
- 1 in 290,472,336
- Any prize
- 1 in 23.07
-
Monday · Wednesday · Saturday · $2 a play · up to $4 with add-ons
Last drawn September 19, 2026
- Jackpot
- 1 in 292,201,338
- Any prize
- 1 in 24.87
- Add-ons here
- Power Play, Double Play
What is different in New Mexico
- 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 — New Mexico does not adjust them for sales.
- State withholding
- 5.9%
- Held back before the cheque is written, on top of 24% federal. What you finally owe is settled at filing.
- Minimum age
- 18
- New Mexico Lottery's own rule. Five jurisdictions set it higher.
Rules read from powerball.com and New Mexico Lottery on 2026-09-22. Withholding rates and the calculator.
New Mexico Lottery's own games
New Mexico 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 Mexico. Rather than republish a feed we have not checked, the page says so. New Mexico 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 Mexico's rules, which is not what they are worth under anyone else's.
New Mexico lottery tools
New Mexico lottery questions
- What lottery games can you play in New Mexico?
- Mega Millions and Powerball, plus New Mexico Lottery's own draw games and scratch tickets. We publish the multi-state analysis and the New Mexico rules; New Mexico Lottery's own draw games are not in our database yet.
- Does New Mexico sell Power Play and Double Play?
- Both. Each costs $1 a play on top of the $2 ticket, so a full New Mexico line is $4. We price Power Play at about 46 cents per dollar and Double Play at about 53 cents.
- How much tax does New Mexico withhold from lottery winnings?
- 5.9%, held back before the cheque is written and on top of 24% federal withholding. Withholding is not the final bill. The calculator works out what you would actually keep.
- Which New Mexico 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 Mexico 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 Mexico rules on this page were read from powerball.com and New Mexico Lottery on 2026-09-22.
About the New Mexico Lottery
New Mexico 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. nmlottery.com
Every jurisdiction is listed on the lottery hub — including Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah, which run no lottery at all.