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This was more than double the largest lottery jackpot the world has ever seen in any game in history! WORLD RECORD HIGH JACKPOT WON: The Powerball jackpot rose to an amazing, never before seen $1.5 BILLION DOLLARS (actual prize was about $1,568,000,000) for the Janudrawing. The second prize (won by matching five white balls in any order) is $1 million. Jackpots are now even bigger, starting at a minimum of $40 million. You can use our Odds of Winning Lotto Games chart to compare many types of games. Just one number from a separate number field makes the odds more than 3 times as bad. To see the difference between this type and a regular pick-6 game, compare those odds toĪ 6/59 Lotto game in which the odds of winning the first prize jackpot are less than one in 45 million.

The high jackpots still make these type of games very popular ones to play despite the odds. In 2015, Powerball returned to having the worst odds of any game in the world at nearly in in 300 million. The 2012 change was the first to have lowered the odds, but since the ticket price doubled, it was not an advantage. The original Powerball 5/45+1/45 game had odds of one in 54,979,154,īut the odds steadily increased with the format changes. The latest format, 5/69+1/26 started on October 7, 2015.Ticket price jumped from $1 up to $2 per ticket. In January 2012, Powerball changed again to a 5/59+1/35 game format.

In early 2009, Powerball changed their format from the 5/55 + 1/42 number field (which had been in play since 2005),Īdding numbers to the main set and removing some from the powerball number set becoming a 5/59+1/39 game.

The game has added numbers to its format many times over the years. Powerball was the first lotto game to use two drawings in its format, and it was originally a 5/45+1/45 format game.

In April 1992, Lotto America changed to become Powerball.

Originally, in 1988, Lotto America, Powerball's predecessor, was the game to play.