US Powerball prizes

The US Powerball holds the crown for the largest jackpot win of any lottery in the the world ever!

This is staggering when you consider that its compatriot lottery , the US Mega Millions has generated a jackpot as large as $1.537 Billion in October 2018.

However it still wasn't quite large enough to top the US Powerball's $1.586 Billion jackpot that was won by three incredibly lucky tickets in Jan 2016.

It seems unfathomable that a jackpot will ever surpass this, but with the US Powerball's opening jackpot of $40,000,000 and the unlimited roll overs, who knows!

The complete top ten ranking wins of all time!

Rank	Jackpot Amount	Location of winner	Number of Winners	Date
1	$1.58Billion	California, Florida and Tennessee	3	13^th January 2016
2	$768.41 Million	Wisconsin	1	27^th March 2019
3	$758.7 Million	Massachusetts	1	23^rd August 2017
4	$687.8 Million	New York and Iowa	2	27^th October 2018
5	$590.5 Million	Florida	1	18^th May 2013
6	$587.5 Million	Missouri and Arizona	2	28^th November 2012
7	$564 Million	Puerto Rico, North Carolina and Texas	3	11^th February 2015
8	$559.7 Million	New Hampshire	1	6^th January 2018
9	$487 Million	New Hampshire	1	30^th July 2016
10	$456.7 Million	Pennsylvania	1	17^th March 2018

Interestingly the largest jackpots of the Powerball always seem to be slightly higher than that of the Mega Millions. On average about 12.6%. This could be down to the Powerball having slightly more annual players, (maybe as it was established 4 year earlier or has better odds , who knows )

One Pound Lotto's Prize structure for the US Powerball

Numbers	Average Prize/Winnings	Odds/Probability
5 + 1 Power Ball	Equal to cash option of published jackpot after local taxes	1 in 292,201,338
5	$1,000,000	1 in 11,688,053
4 + 1 Power Ball	$50,000	1 in 913,129.18
4	$100	1 in 36,525.17
3 + 1 Power Ball	$100	1 in 14,494.11

Prizes on the US Powerball are paid out from 3+1 numbers upwards as above.