This Week's Powerball: $100 million

The Powerball lotto in the United States is the steadiest weekly multi-million dollar draw in America, and this week is no exception. This Wednesday, May 13, 2015 the Powerball draw will take place, and the grand jackpot is $100 million. You can buy tickets to the Powerball lottery in any of the 44 participating states, as well as online at reputable sites such as The Lotter and Lottery Master.

Why Buy Online Lottery Tickets?

Buying online lottery tickets has two benefits: it saves you time - instead of going to the store, you can simply buy your tickets while sitting at your computer desk - and it lets you keep a record of how many tickets you buy. This way, you can more easily keep track of your buying-habits. Additionally, when you buy at valid sites like The Lotter and Lottery Master, you get extra benefits, such as discounts, that you wouldn’t get when buying at your local drugstore.

As of now, Powerball can be played in 44 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

How to Play Powerball

Once you’ve purchased your online lottery ticket, you need to choose five numbers between 1 and 59, and then choose a separate Powerball number between 1 and 35. There are nine prize categories in total: the grand jackpot, and additional prize levels that range anywhere from $4 to $1 million. While these prizes are certainly not in the millions, they do add up. For example, earlier this week, on May 9, non-jackpot prizes totaled a cash value of $5,460,494.

Whether you buy online lottery tickets or hard copies, they currently cost two dollars each, or three dollars if you add the Power Play option. Power Play is a special feature that lets winners increase the original prize amount, not including the grand jackpot of course!

Powerball Power Wins

On February 11th of this year, the largest Powerball jackpot was won by three players simultaneously, who then split the jackpot of $564 million between themselves. This was the fifth-largest lottery jackpot in the world.

The largest jackpot ever won in Powerball was $588 million in 2012. Runners-up include $314 million won in 2007, $365 won million in 2006, and $340 million won in 2002.