EuroMillions - how to play?
When are the draws held?
The EuroMillions jackpot draw, usually, takes place every Tuesday and Friday at 21:30 evenings Paris time. To win, players need to guess 5 main numbers and 2 additional («Lucky Stars»).
How to increase your chances of winning
You can find the latest EuroMillions results on our website immediately after the draw. Increase your chances of winning the jackpot, buy more than one ticket, and good luck will smile at you. You can play EuroMillions online at the official website. Everyone can get a jackpot. Buy your lottery ticket, and today you will get an extra chance to become a millionaire.
Receiving a prize
If you are in Russia at the time of winning, then, according to the EuroMillions lotto rules, you can receive your winnings only in this country. Don't forget about it, when do you start your lottery. All prizes are paid regardless of whether, which country you are a citizen of.
There is one winner per ticket, single ticket is optional, This does not mean, that you only have to buy one ticket. More tickets - more opportunities to win. In case of winning all tickets, you will be able to withdraw the winnings from only one of them at your discretion.
Fortune cookie payout
In the Powerball draw 30 Martha 2005 of the year 110 winners took second place. The total amount paid to these winners was 19,4 million dollars, wherein 89 winners received 100 thousand dollars each, a 21 the other winner received 500 thousand dollars each, since they were selected in Power Play.
MUSL officials initially suspected fraud or error in the message. However, all 110 winners played in cookie numbers with predictions, made by Wonton Food Inc. from Long Island City, New York State . The factory printed the numbers “22, 28, 32, 33, 39, 40»On thousands of states. The number "40" in luck did not coincide with the number 42 в Powerball. None of the Wonton Food employees guessed these numbers; at the time, Connecticut was the closest player to the game . Since the ticket holders won by coincidence, not rough play, payments were made.
If the Powerball number were 42, these winners would share the jackpot in 25 million dollars: each annual annuity for 227 272 dollar or 122 727 dollars in cash (before retention). The fortune on the cookies read: “All your preparation, finally, will pay off ".
Aussies Can Play the Powerball
If you thought you couldn’t play the US Powerball because you live in Australia, think again mate! A little known fact about the Powerball lottery is that Aussies, or any non-U.S. citizens for that matter, are allowed to play and collect the prize. So, we’re good to go, right?
One way to buy your Powerball tickets is to get on a plane and fly from Sydney or Melbourne to the nearest lottery retailer in California. That will probably cost quite a lot of money, though.
There’s another way to play. Purchase your Powerball lottery tickets with us and take advantage of our lottery messenger services. Our local agent based in the United States will hold onto your tickets until the day comes that you have won a huge Powerball prize. This is totally legit. You can play the Powerball from Down Under, so what are you waiting for?
Latest Australia Powerball Lottery Winners.
Below is a list of the latest lottery winners Powerball Australia:
| Date | Lotto win | Where the winning tickets were sold | Winners |
| 23 june 2016 | AUD$ 3 million Australian dollars | Queensland | Anonymous winner from Southeast Brisbane, Queensland. |
| 16 june 2016 | AUD$ 3 million Australian dollars | Victoria and Western Australia | Lotto winnings were shared by two winners. The first half of the jackpot went to a player from Melbourne, the other half - to the lucky one from Western Australia (city unknown). |
| 2 june 2016 | AUD$ 6 million Australian dollars | Victoria | One anonymous winner is a 50-year-old man from Stoul. |
| 19 May 2016 | AUD$ 3 million Australian dollars | Victoria | An anonymous winner from Vantirna won the jackpot. |
| 12 May 2016 | AUD$ 3 million Australian dollars | Queensland and Victoria | The jackpot was divided among themselves 2 winner. One winning ticket was sold in Brisbane City, Queensland. The second half of the jackpot went to an elderly couple from Melbourne. |
FAQ
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When the Powerball lottery draws take place (date and time)?
Powerball lottery draws take place on Wednesday and Saturday nights, in 22:59 (North American Eastern Time).
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When the Powerball ticket purchase is closed?
Closing sales varies by state, but in most cases they end an hour or two before the start of the print run.
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How to win a Powerball prize?
There are nine prize tiers in Powerball. Cash prize can be won, from just matching the Powerball number to the jackpot, for which you have to match all five main numbers and the Powerball. See the Powerball Prizes page for information on all nine Powerball prize categories.
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What is meant by the term Power Play (Power play) in Powerball lottery game?
Power Play is a special feature of the Powerball lottery game, which allows you to increase your winnings several times. The option is valid at all prize levels, except for the main prize. If you win the jackpot, then your Power Play feature does not apply to it.
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How to participate in the Powerball lottery, being in the USA?
Each lottery player has the opportunity to purchase a ticket, unless they live in Alaska, Hawaii, in Alabama, Mississippi, Nevada or Utah. Participants from these states are not allowed to purchase Powerball tickets. Residents of all other states of America can buy a ticket absolutely free.
There is a way out of this situation - buying a ticket in an authorized state. To do this, players had to go to another state and make a purchase there.
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In case of winning, how long can you receive payment?
90 days from the date of the draw, in which the player won.
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Is there an age limit for participants in the Powerball lottery game??
According to the rules of the Powerball lottery, the player must be of legal age. For some states, enough 18 years, others do not allow persons to play, not reached 21 of the year. Before starting the game, this point should be clarified.
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What are the taxes on American Powerball prizes?
No tax on winnings - California, Florida, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, US Virgin Islands, Washington State, Wyoming.
The rest of the states assume the payment of taxes from 2,9% to 8,82 %.
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What is the chance of winning a Powerball prize??
The probability of winning any Powerball prize is 1 to 24,87. The probability of winning the jackpot is 1 to 292 201 338.
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What is the minimum Powerball main prize?
40 million dollars.
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Whether the number of accumulations of the main prize or its size in Powerball is limited?
No. If none of the participants can guess the whole winning combination, then the main prize accumulates indefinitely. That is why Powerball has such record jackpots.
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What is the size of the largest grand prize, received in the Powerball lottery game?
Biggest Powerball jackpot ever won 13 january 2016 r. Main prize in size 1 580 000 000 $ was split in three ways following the sale of winning California tickets, Florida and Tennessee.
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What is the price of a Powerball lottery ticket?
What’s the Difference between US Powerball and Australia Powerball?
Powerball lotteries exist all over the world, so how do you choose which one to play? Is the US Powerball the same as the Powerball run by Oz Lotteries, which we are quite familiar with? Are they one and the same? No! The US Powerball was the first lottery to introduce the second drum (the power ball) and many lotteries followed suit. One of them was our local Australian Powerball. It came into being in 1996 under the tagline “One ball could change it all”.
The guess range is a bit different between the two. In the Australian Powerball you select six numbers from 1-40 and a single Powerball number from 1-20. In the US Powerball you choose five main numbers from 1-69 and one Powerball number from 1-26. Find out everything about how to play US Powerball and purchase your tickets with us and select your numbers!
This leads to a very noticeable difference between the US Powerball and our home variety of the game and that’s the size of the jackpots. Powerball Australia has a record jackpot of AUD$80 million. In comparison, the US Powerball game is recognized all over the world. The record US Powerball jackpot was set in January 2016 at $1.58 billion. That’s over $2 billion Australian!
And the final difference is the number of prize categories. The Australian Powerball offers eight prize division while the US Powerball has nine. Playing the US Powerball you can win a prize just by matching the Powerball!!
Records[]
An Alliance Airlines Fokker 70 at Brisbane Airport, wrapped in Powerball wrapping paper (December 2016)
On 1 March 2007, the Division 1 pool was $33 million; it was the largest Australian lottery prize won.
On 5 June 2008, the Division 1 pool was $58,737,207.41; then the largest prize pool in Australian history to that point (since eclipsed several times, including by in 2012 , which had a Division 1 pool of $100 million.)
On 30 July 2009, the Division 1 pool was $80 million, the largest Australian Powerball pool until August 2018. There were two Division 1 winners in the drawing.
On 21 August 2014, the Division 1 pool was $70 million. Two winners walked away with 35 million each.
On 28 May 2015, the Division 1 pool was $50 million, won by a single ticket. The winner was a woman from Canberra.
On July 23, 2015, the Division 1 pool was $50 million, won by a single ticket. The winner was a woman from Western Australia.
On January 7, 2016, the Division 1 pool was $70 million, won by a single ticket. The winner was from Queensland.
On January 11, 2018, the Division 1 pool was $55 million, won by a single ticket in the Melbourne town of Brunswick. The prize went unclaimed for almost six months but was finally claimed anonymously just seven days before it was set to be transferred to the Victorian State Revenue Office. In Victoria, the amount of time someone has to claim a prize is unlimited, however if it is not claimed within six months, it will go to the Victorian State Revenue Office where the winner can claim it at any time.
On August 16, 2018, the Division 1 pool was $100 million, surpassing the previous record for Powerball and equalling the Oz Lotto record. The Division 1 pool was split between two winners, one from Melbourne, one from Sydney. On 17 January 2019, a single person from Sydney won AUD107 million, making it the largest individual lottery win in Australian history.
As of July 18th, 2019, the Division 1 prize is $110 million. It was the largest ever division one prize, in Australias history.
No one won the 100 million jackpot in September, thus it went up to 150 million. It was shared by three winners, they got 50 million each.
Syndicate
What is a syndicate?
Syndicate is a voluntary grouping of players to purchase tickets in bulk and take part in the game. The syndicate allows you to buy many times more lottery tickets, but the resulting winnings in this game strategy are divided equally among all members of the syndicate. The syndicate is also called the "lottery pool". Each member of the pool must make a certain contribution and adhere to special rules, which each syndicate develops for itself.
Syndicate members can be friends, colleagues, relatives and appoint the head of the syndicate, which monitors the results of the game and manages the pool funds. There are syndicates, where the participants don't know each other. Such pools are created for a one-time game in order to save on ticket purchases.
Syndicates were created to increase the chances of winning the game. Known, that the more lottery tickets bought, the more likely you are to win a prize.
How to play as part of a syndicate?
To participate in the syndicate, the player can create his own pool, uniting friends and acquaintances, or join an existing syndicate.
Pool members make monthly or quarterly contributions, fixed size. With this money, a certain number of lottery tickets is purchased for each game.. If the syndicate wins a prize, then the amount of the winnings in equal parts goes to each participant in the pool.
Where to play?
Usually, the opportunity to play as part of a syndicate is provided by intermediary sites. Information regarding participation in pools can be found in the site rules.
How much can you win?
Amounts, the syndicates win range from 4 dollars before the jackpot. According to statistics, near 40 % of all major lottery prizes belong to pool members.
How much more likely to win as part of a syndicate?
Chances of winning are based on the number of tickets purchased by the syndicate. Anyway, playing in a pool means, that the total number of tickets for the syndicate will be 200-300. Compared to the odds of an individual game on 1-2 ticket, then you can see the real picture. The odds of winning with a syndicate are several times higher than playing alone.
How to buy tickets?
With the help of an intermediary site, residents of Russia can purchase tickets via the Internet. To do this, a resident of the Russian Federation must do the following.
- Take a simple registration on the site. All steps of registration manipulations are described in great detail during data entry. After registration, the player receives a personal account, in which his game account will be stored, keep correspondence with the site administration, scans of tickets will be sent there.
- Select the desired lottery and click "Buy ticket".
- Choose a number combination for the game or use the random number generator to automatically fill the ticket.
- Pay for the ticket using the methods provided by the intermediary.
- Receive a scan of a ticket by mail.
As you can see, nothing complicated.
In Russia
Residents of Russia can become owners of a Powerball lottery ticket in several ways. The first way is to fly to the United States and buy a ticket in person. This option is very expensive, so he is too out of touch with reality.
To purchase a Powerball lottery ticket, a resident of Russia must choose a reliable intermediary and register on the website. After that, you should select the Powerball lottery from the list and pay for the ticket via the Internet. The middleman buys a ticket in the United States, scans it and sends it to the player in the personal account. If a player becomes the owner of a jackpot or other large prize, which you need to fly to the USA, then this scanned copy of the ticket will be the basis for the payment of the prize.
Offline
Each lottery player has the opportunity to purchase a ticket, unless they live in Alaska, Hawaii, in Alabama, Mississippi, Nevada or Utah. Participants from these states are not allowed to purchase Powerball tickets. Residents of all other states of America can buy a ticket absolutely free.
There is a way out of this situation - buying a ticket in an authorized state. To do this, players had to go to another state and make a purchase there.
Good, now the Powerball lottery gives players the chance to buy a ticket on the official website. Residents of other countries can also purchase a ticket online. It is very comfortable, although it assumes the presence of some commission. But, anyway, it's cheaper, than flying to the USA for a ticket.
How to fill out a ticket and play?
Filling out a ticket is an easy step. You just need to select a number set from the presented range and add it to the ticket. Each player chooses 5 numbers from 69 possible to create a combination of main numbers and 1 number of 26 possible as an additional game ball.
Rules of the game
Need to figure it out, how to play Powerball .
The American lottery is held with the participation of two lottery drums. The first place 69 balls white, and in the second - 26 of red color. During the game from the first lottery drum to determine the winning combination, they extract 5 balls. One red ball is taken from the second lottery drum, in the game it is called Powerball.
When buying a lottery ticket, the player needs to decide on the numbers, which will represent the white and red balls. You can make this choice manually or use a special program - a random number generator.
If the lottery participant for some reason did not purchase a ticket in advance, but decided to do it on the day of the drawing, then we should not forget that, that sales close for 60 minutes before the start of the game.
According to the rules of the Powerball lottery, the player should not be less than 18 years. The rules of the game in some states are slightly different. These differences also apply to the age of the players.. Some Powerball options suggest, what the participant must achieve 21 of the year.
Player, whose ticket was winning, has at its disposal 180 days from the date of the drawing in order to, to declare yourself. If the participant does not meet this deadline, then it will be impossible to get the prize later.
