With our new promotion that’s open for entries for race-ticket packages, we’re getting questions from players who have just heard about the Double Play® option in Powerball®. They want to know how it works and what they can win if they add the Double Play option to their Powerball ticket.
Powerball Double Play tickets are what you’ll need to enter the promotion, so now is a good time for a refresher!
The Double Play option has been part of the Powerball game for 4 months here in Iowa. It gives you the chance to play and win with the same set of numbers in two drawings rather than just one.
For an extra $1 per play, you can add Double Play to your tickets. (A Powerball play costs $2, and with the Double Play option added, a ticket costs $3.) You’ll still only have one set of numbers. But you can win twice with them – once in the regular Powerball drawing, and once in a separate Double Play drawing with a top cash prize of $10 million.
You could win a prize in the regular Powerball drawing AND the Double Play drawing on the same night!
Here’s how Double Play works: If you add Double Play to your ticket, your numbers will be good for the Powerball drawing and that same night’s Double Play drawing.
Double Play has the same odds of winning as Powerball. But while Powerball has a rolling jackpot, Double Play has a fixed top cash prize of $10 million.
In both drawings, five winning numbers are selected from the main pool of 1-69. In Powerball, the drawing balls for those first five numbers are white. In Double Play, they’re black. And in both drawings, one red Powerball is selected from a pool of 1-26.
To win the top prize in either drawing, your ticket has to match all six winning numbers. But there are eight other ways to win in each drawing, starting with a prize for matching just the Powerball alone.
The Double Play drawing is held after every Powerball drawing on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
And for Power Play® fans: It’s still part of the Powerball game, and it hasn’t changed. You can add both the Power Play and Double Play options to your ticket, and if you do that, your Powerball play will cost $4.
While Power Play multiplies Powerball winnings at all prize levels except the jackpot, it does not apply to Double Play winnings.
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