The lucky numbers for the Wednesday night drawing: 18, 27, 51, 65, 68, with Powerball 5. The Power Play option: 3X.
Although nobody won the $30 million Powerball jackpot in the lottery drawing for Wednesday, May 6, 2026, there were still plenty of people who won smaller prize amounts.
7 tickets matched four white balls plus the Power ball for the $50,000 third prizes, 2 tickets that $150,000 prizes, and 2 third prizes worth $8,775 (California).
In total, more than 315,400 tickets won cash prizes totaling $2.8 million in Wednesday’s drawing.
These are the prize payouts for all states that play Powerball combined, along with the prize values for each prize tier, with and without the “Power Play” on Wed, May 6, 2026:
| Match | Winners | Prize | Power Play Winners | Power Play Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O O O O O | O | 0 | 30,000,000 USD | X | X |
| O O O O O | 0 | 1,000,000 USD | 0 | 2,000,000 USD |
| O O O O | O | 9 | 50,000 USD | 2 | 150,000 USD |
| O O O O | 116 | 100 USD | 46 | 300 USD |
| O O O | O | 307 | 100 USD | 112 | 300 USD |
| O O O | 7,860 | 7 USD | 2,898 | 21 USD |
| O O | O | 7,216 | 7 USD | 2,803 | 21 USD |
| O | O | 60,541 | 4 USD | 22,717 | 12 USD |
| | O | 153,244 | 4 USD | 57,500 | 12 USD |
Powerball is played in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338. The overall odds of winning any Powerball prize are 1 in 24.87.
To play Powerball, you pick six numbers: five numbers between one and 69 for the white balls; and one number between one and 26 for the red Powerball. Selecting all of them correctly gets you the jackpot.
The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $47 million, with a cash option of $21.1 million. The next drawing will be held at 11 p.m. ET Saturday, May 9, 2026. Try your luck now?
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