Florida Lottery Powerball Double Play (2024)

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How to win Powerball double play? ›

Black balls (Double Play): The first five numbers on your ticket can match with any of the first five numbers drawn in the Double Play drawing, in any order. Note that you can only win a Double Play prize if you purchased the Double Play option on your game ticket.

Double Play is an add-on feature that gives players in select jurisdictions another chance to match their Powerball numbers in a separate drawing with a top cash prize of $10 million.

Florida woman cashes in with winning $10 million Powerball Double Play ticket. While many Powerball players will be buying tickets hoping to win Saturday nights $800 million-plus jackpot, a Florida woman cashed in a winning ticket from July worth $10 million.

Add Double Play to enter your numbers into an additional drawing to win up to $10 million, and Power Play for a chance to multiply your winnings, for an extra $1 each per line of play. Powerball tickets can include both the Double Play and Power Play add-ons.

Double Play is another chance to win! Double Play enters a player's Powerball numbers into a second drawing for only an extra $1. This opportunity provides the chance to win even more prizes, up to $10 MILLION!

Players win a prize by matching one of the 9 ways to win. The jackpot is won by matching all five white balls in any order and the red Powerball. Jackpot winners may choose to receive their prize as an annuity, paid in 30 graduated payments over 29 years, or a lump-sum payment.

March 30 drawing jackpot results. No one matched all six numbers to win the Powerball jackpot. Four tickets purchased in Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania matched all five numbers except for the Powerball worth $1 million. Double Play numbers are 20, 29, 43, 57, 63, and the Powerball is 16.

Powerball Costs: The Bottom Line

The Powerball ticket price is $2 per play. You can add Power Play for $1, bringing the total to $3 per ticket. The Double Play add-on also costs an additional $1 for a total of $3 per ticket. You can add both Power Play and Double Play for a total of $4 per ticket.

You only need to match one number in Powerball to win a prize. However, that number must be the Powerball worth $4.

The last "repeat" in numbers occurred in the Saturday, May 20, 2023, Powerball drawing: 17-23-32-38-63 and the Powerball was 23. Before that, on Oct. 31, 2022, the number 13 appeared twice, in the winning numbers and as the Powerball − and, oddly, that drawing also was for $1 billion.

Has there ever been two Powerball winners? ›

Two tickets matched five numbers and will take home $1,622,808. The winning tickets were sold at an Albertsons in San Dimas and Oxnard Shores Bottle Shop in Oxnard.

For most, winning the lottery is a distant dream. But for Edwin Castro, it became a reality when he struck gold with a $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot in November 2022, the largest in history. Choosing a one-time lump-sum payment, Castro received an astonishing $997.6 million, just short of a billion.

Power Play does not apply to the US Powerball jackpot, but it can increase all the other prize categories in the game. It can double the $1 million 2nd prize, and it can boost the others to some mouth-watering amounts. In the table below, you can see just how much you stand to win with this amazing multiplier.

The "Power Play" bonus is announced at the drawing time and does not apply to the jackpot winnings.

2021 addition of Monday drawings and introduction of Double Play. On May 23, 2021, Powerball announced that starting on August 23, 2021, draws would occur on Monday, in addition to Wednesday and Saturday.