Where to Play Powerball

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• Powerball can be played in all of the following 48 states/jurisdictions, plus online.
• You can find the nearest official lottery retailer in any state using the free Lottery Places app.
• States that sell Powerball tickets:

^† State was a founding member of Lotto America.

^‡ State was a Lotto America member before the game was changed to Powerball, although not a founding member of Lotto America.

* State does not offer the Power Play option (see How to Play for details).

** Maine was a member of Lotto America from July, 1990 - April, 1992, and dropped out due to low sales.  They later re-joined Powerball on July 31, 2004.

Notes:

• Powerball was originally known as Lotto America, which began on February 3, 1988.  On April 19, 1992, Lotto America underwent many changes, including nine ways to win, improved overall odds, a larger jackpot, and other changes, and the name of the game was changed to "Powerball".
• The dates shown are the dates tickets went on sale in the state, not the date of the first drawing.
• USA Mega compiled the list of game start dates through an exhaustive search of web resources, contacts with the state lotteries, and research of old news stories.  To the best of our knowledge it is correct.  If you have certain knowledge that any of the above information is incorrect, please contact us and indicate the source of your information.  We will be pleased to update this information if it is not precisely correct.