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What Double Play is: Powerball's second drawing, explained
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- Double Play is a second Powerball drawing: the same numbers you picked for the main draw get another, completely separate chance in their own drawing with its own prizes.
- Double Play uses the same structure as the main game — five main numbers from 69 and a Powerball from 26 in LotteryCorner's format records — but it is a distinct drawing with distinct results.
- Availability is state-by-state.
- On a LotteryCorner results page, Double Play appears as its own labelled row under the main drawing — never blended into it.
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Double Play is a second Powerball drawing: the same numbers you picked for the main draw get another, completely separate chance in their own drawing with its own prizes.
It is an add-on, so a ticket is only in the Double Play drawing if that option was purchased — and it is only offered in some jurisdictions.
Same matrix, separate drawing
Double Play uses the same structure as the main game — five main numbers from 69 and a Powerball from 26 in LotteryCorner's format records — but it is a distinct drawing with distinct results. Matching the main draw tells you nothing about the Double Play result, and the other way around.
Its top prize is its own fixed structure, separate from the main jackpot. The exact prize table is published by the game; the official Powerball page is the source for those figures.
Only in some states
Availability is state-by-state. LotteryCorner's format records list Double Play in Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington and the District of Columbia.
If your state is not on that list, tickets there simply do not carry the option — and our state pages only show Double Play where it exists.
How it reads on a results page
On a LotteryCorner results page, Double Play appears as its own labelled row under the main drawing — never blended into it. If the Double Play result has not been published yet, the row says so instead of borrowing the main draw's numbers.
Checking a ticket means checking the right drawing: main-draw numbers against the main result, Double Play against the Double Play result, one at a time.
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Sources and corrections
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- LotteryCorner production-derived result-format definitions
- LotteryCorner data used
- 04-sample-data/result-format-definitions.json (Powerball secondaryDraw: doubleplay, jurisdiction list, ball groups)
- Last checked
- Correction status
- No corrections. Prize figures are deliberately deferred to the official source.
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- LotteryCorner Results Desk
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- LotteryCorner Editorial Team
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