Here’s How You Can Win Powerball

Modelled on the highly successful American lottery, Powerball was introduced in Australia in 1996. It quickly became a household name with its easily recognisable tagline “One ball could change it all!” Powerball is one of Australia’s favourite lotto games with record jackpots reaching $150,000,000. Here’s a guide on how to win Powerball.

Lotto strategists may like to follow Powerball “hot numbers” and make predictions based on the draw frequency of certain numbers. The following numbers have been drawn the most amount of times in Powerball: 17, 2, 11, 22, 7, 20, 25.

There are also Powerball “cold numbers” which have been drawn the least amount of times: 12, 15, 26, 1, 31, 18, 16.

There are other strategies for choosing lotto numbers, some based on emotion, some on mathematics, some completely random:

Lucky numbers
Birthdays
Famous combinations
Mathematical sequences
Alphabetical equivalent
Automatic selection (Powerball Quickpick)

The goal of Powerball is to correctly choose all 7 winning numbers plus the Powerball in order to win Division 1. The first 7 numbers are chosen from a barrel with 35 numbered balls (1 to 35), while the Powerball is chosen from a barrel with 20 numbered balls (1 to 20).

Here’s all you need to know in a quick table:

Division	Match	Odds
Division 1	All 7 main winning numbers and the Powerball	1:134,490,400
Division 2	All 7 main winning numbers	1:7,078,443
Division 3	Any 6 main winning numbers and the Powerball	1:686,176
Division 4	Any 6 main winning numbers	1:36,115
Division 5	Any 5 main winning numbers and the Powerball	1:16,943
Division 6	Any 4 main winning numbers and the Powerball	1:1,173
Division 7	Any 5 main winning numbers	1:892
Division 8	Any 3 main winning numbers and the Powerball	1:188
Division 9	Any 2 main winning numbers and the Powerball	1:66