Powerball Number Checker
What would your numbers have won?
Enter the Powerball numbers you play and we'll score them against every real drawing since the current rules began on October 7, 2015. You'll see what playing them every time would have cost, what it would have paid, and every drawing where they won something.
Your numbers
+$1 per line, using the multiplier actually drawn each night. Match 5 pays $2 million.
By prize tier
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By line
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Every winning drawing
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What to expect
Most people are surprised twice. First, by how often they win: a single Powerball line wins some prize about once every 25 drawings, so over roughly 1,400 drawings you'd typically see 50 to 60 wins. Second, by how little those wins add up to. Almost all of them are the $4 prizes for matching the Powerball, and the fixed prizes return about 32 cents of every $2 ticket over the long run. Playing one line every drawing since late 2015 would have cost around $2,800 and typically paid back $200 to $300. The long-run average is higher, around $450, but only because it includes rare $50,000 and $1 million hits that most number sets never see.
Bigger hits are rare enough that most number sets never see one. Matching four white balls plus the Powerball ($50,000) comes up about once in 913,000 drawings — at three drawings a week, once every 5,800 years. If your numbers show one, that's genuinely unusual luck, not a sign they're good numbers.
Are some numbers luckier?
No. Every drawing is independent, and every combination has the same 1 in 292,201,338 chance. Over 1,400 drawings some numbers will have come up more often than others purely by chance — the same way a coin flipped 1,400 times won't land exactly 700 heads. That history doesn't make any number more or less likely next time. What does matter is avoiding popular picks like birthdays (1–31) and sequences: they don't win more often, but when they do win a jackpot, it's more likely to be split.
How the check works
Drawing results come from the New York State Gaming Commission's public Powerball winning numbers dataset, loaded fresh each time you open this page, so it includes the latest drawing. Only drawings since October 7, 2015 are used, because that's when Powerball switched to today's 69 white balls and 26 Powerballs; earlier drawings used different ball counts and prizes.
Each line is scored against each drawing using the standard fixed prizes and counted as a $2 play. With Power Play turned on, each line costs $3 and every non-jackpot prize is multiplied by the Power Play number actually drawn that night (2× to 10×), except Match 5, which pays a flat $2 million. Double Play isn't included, and California, which pays non-jackpot prizes on a pari-mutuel basis, would differ. A jackpot match is flagged but not given a dollar amount, since the jackpot was different every drawing.
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