The jackpot starts at $40 million and grows by a percentage of sales with every drawing that nobody wins the jackpot.The pay table is shown in the default values of the calculator below.Twice a week, the lottery will randomly choose the same number of balls from the same ranges.
The player will choose 5 White Balls from 1 to 69 and one Powerball from 1 to 26.The following rules are based on the last known set of rules changes in January, 2014. The total return in the lower right cell is the overall expected return, before considering taxes and jackpot sharing. The return column shows the ratio of the return to the amount bet. The win for the jackpot shown is roughly the current jackpot amount. The defaults shown are the fixed prizes for all wins except the jackpot. The calculator that follows will calculate the odds for the Powerball lottery, or any lottery, such as Powerball, based on the same formula of five regular balls and one extra ball. On this page Powerball Calculator Introduction
