Powerball number generator
One click gives you five lines, weighted by 1,392 drawings since October 7, 2015. Drawn Mondays, Wednesdays & Saturdays at 10:59 p.m. ET.
Press Generate 5 lines to get your Powerball numbers.
Frequency, dry spells, recent momentum, pair affinity, sums and odd/even balance all come from the real winning history.The numbers this site produces are reference figures for entertainment purposes only, based on historical statistics and a random sampling algorithm. Every lottery drawing is a perfectly independent event, so nothing here guarantees or improves a win. Please do not buy lottery tickets excessively.
Drawing statistics
How often each white ball (1–69) has come up across 1,392 drawings. The dashed line is the count expected from pure chance — every ball should sit near 101 — and highlighted bars are the numbers you just generated.
Powerball frequency (1–26).
How the five white balls have added up historically. The accent lines mark the sums of the lines you just generated.
Warmer colours are drawn more often. The small number is drawings since that ball last appeared.
Powerball rules, odds and prize tiers
Powerball draws five white balls from 1–69 and one Powerball from 1–26. Order does not matter, so the number of possible tickets is C(69, 5) × 26 = 292,201,338 — the jackpot odds. Drawings are held mondays, wednesdays & saturdays at 10:59 p.m. ET. Power Play is an optional $1 add-on that multiplies non-jackpot prizes by 2X–10X (the $1,000,000 tier is capped at $2,000,000).
| Match | Base prize | Odds |
|---|---|---|
| 5 white + PB | Jackpot | 1 in 292,201,338 |
| 5 white | $1,000,000 | 1 in 11,688,054 |
| 4 white + PB | $50,000 | 1 in 913,129 |
| 4 white | $100 | 1 in 36,525 |
| 3 white + PB | $100 | 1 in 14,494 |
| 3 white | $7 | 1 in 579.76 |
| 2 white + PB | $7 | 1 in 701.33 |
| 1 white + PB | $4 | 1 in 91.98 |
| 0 white + PB | $4 | 1 in 38.32 |
Adding up every tier, the fixed prizes return 16.0% of the $2 ticket price on average. The rest of a ticket's value sits in the jackpot, which is why the expected value of a play swings so widely with the advertised prize. See the break-even calculation →
What this generator does — and what it cannot do
The generator weights each ball by how often it has been drawn, how long it has been missing, its momentum over the last 60 drawings and which balls it tends to appear with, then shapes each line so its sum, odd/even split, low/high split and decade spread look like a real drawing. That makes the output statistically typical of past winners. It does not make it more likely to win: the 292,201,338 possible tickets are, and remain, equally likely. Why past numbers cannot predict the next draw →
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